The Madras High Court, on Wednesday (November 26, 2025), reserved orders on a plea by acclaimed musician R. Ilaiyarajaa to restrain Hyderabad-based Mythri Movie Makers, the producers of Tamil movie Dude, from continuing to exhibit the movie, in any medium, including OTT platforms, along with the songs ‘Nooru Varusham’ and ‘Karutha Machan’ that were composed by him for other movies in the past.
Producers can’t cull out songs I composed for their movies and sell to music labels: Ilaiyaraaja
Justice N. Senthilkumar deferred his orders on the interim injunction application pursuant to a civil suit filed by the composer seeking a permanent injunction and a mandatory injunction directing the production house to immediately take down all unauthorised content related to the plaintiff’s copyright works and also disclose the profits derived so far by wrongful exploitation of the two songs in the movie Dude.
Senior counsel S. Prabakaran, representing the composer, argued that the respondent Mythri Movie Makers was in the habit of using the songs composed by the plaintiff in its movies without seeking his permission. He said, the same production house had used four of his client’s songs in Ajith Kumar-starrer Good Bad Ugly (GBU) forcing his client to obtain an interim injunction against that movie.
