Dubai company moves Bombay HC to block Netflix’s film on 26/11

NEW DELHI: A Dubai-based firm has moved the Bombay High Court to block Netflix from releasing the film Hotel Mumbai on the OTT entertainment provider’s platform in India on the grounds that it has the rights to release the film in the Indian market.

According to a petition filed by Plus Holdings in the Bombay High Court that ET has reviewed, the Dubai-based firm has claimed that it had bought the rights to the film from Australia-based Xeitgeist Entertainment Group but the latter terminated the agreement unlawfully and transferred the film’s rights to Netflix through a third party.

The film is based on the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai that was spread over almost four days and involved at least a dozen coordinated shootouts and bombings.