Shahid Kapoor and Mrunal Thakur who are making headlines for their upcoming film Jersey have faced some legal trouble. The movie Jersey is now set to release on 22 April. But do you know that the film had been facing some legal issues in the past few days? The upcoming Bollywood film faced legal hurdles due to a copyright claim on the story. The makers had postponed the film by a week to 22 April, which was earlier scheduled to release on 14 April.When the makers of the film got to know that a case had been filed and was being heard in Bombay High Court this week, at that time the decision for the date shift was taken. It has been reported that the team ‘Jersey’ didn’t want to leave anything for the last minute. Hence, decided to get a favorable order from the court before they planned the release of the film.
Film writer Rajneesh Jaiswal has claimed that the story of the film actually belongs to him and had filed the case against the makers in Bombay High Court. But now the High court had denied the stay on the movie and it is due to be released next weekend. Moreover, film producer Aman Gill said “We were all geared up to release our film Jersey this holiday weekend, however, we didn’t want to go ahead and plan a release until the courts gave us a favorable order, and with a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, we had no time to plan for the Thursday release hence we decided to postpone the release by a week to 22nd April till we got such an order. Today on Wednesday we got a favorable order, which clears the way for our release next week 22nd April.”Now, coming to the cast, Jersey stars Shahid Kapoor, Mrunal Thakur, and Pankaj Kapoor. The film has been presented by Allu Arvind, directed by Gowtam Tinnanuri, and produced by Dil Raju, S.Naga Vamsi & Aman Gill. Further, the film is slated to release on 22nd April 2022.