A Mumbai civil court has granted interim relief to actor Salman Khan by ordering Parody Studios and Google to temporarily take down a game called Selmon Bhoi.
Khan had approached the court after he recently became aware of the game. He alleged that the game is based on him and features incidents from his infamous hit-and-run case of September 2002 and the blackbuck-poaching case dating back to October 1998.
Khan also said the caricature shown in the game resembles him while the name of the game is similar to Salman Bhai, as he is known to his fans.
Additional sessions judge KM Jaiswal ordered that the firm shouldn’t relaunch the game till the next hearing. He also stated that Khan had not given his consent for the game and hence this was an invasion of his right to privacy.
“Upon watching the said game, the name of the game as well as the images, [it] prima facie matches with the identity of the plaintiff [Khan] as also shown in photographs placed on record,” the judge noted.
The court order came on the day the first poster for Salman Khan’s next film Antim was released. Directed by Mahesh Manjrekar, the film is the official Hindi remake of acclaimed Marathi movie Mulshi Pattern (2018) and stars his brother-in-law Aayush Sharma.