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Shah seeks Mahesh Bhatt as court receiver to release film

Film financier Bharat Shah and 11 distributors appointed by him to release the Hindi movie Chori Chori Chupke Chupke Friday urged a special court to appoint noted film-maker Mahesh Bhatt as court receiver to release the film worldwide.

Special Public Prosecutor Rohini Salian, however, sought time until February 12 to seek instructions from the investigating officer on whether appointment of Bhatt as court receiver would be acceptable to the police.

On Shah's lawyer Shiraz Rahimtoola suggestion on Bhatt's appointment, designated judge A P Bhangale said that a written undertaking would be taken from the film-maker expressing his readiness to take up the assignment and to discharge his duties impartially.

The film's release was stalled after the arrest of its producer Nasim Rizvi in December. Shah was arrested later and booked under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act on the charge of links with the underworld.

Shah had moved the court urging for a direction to release the seized negatives of the film lying with Adlabs, a film processing firm.

The court decided to hear all the distributors appointed by Shah to release the film because they had made advance payments, thereby creating third party rights on the movie.

PTI

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