Yash Chopra Death Anniversary: From Ranveer Singh to Anushka Sharma, 6 Actors Who Began Their Career with Yash Raj Films 10,000 to the complainant Afreen Fatima Zaidi along with litigation cost of Rs.5,000. The top court"s order came while hearing an appeal filed by Yash Raj Films Pvt Ltd challenging an order of NCDRC which upheld State Commission"s 2017 direction to pay compensation at Rs. A bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and V Ramasubramanium issued notices to the Central Board of Film Certification and the complainant, Zaidi. The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the order of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) directing Yash Raj Films Pvt Ltd to pay Rs 10,000 along with litigation costs as compensation to Zaidi, reported PTI. In 2020, film production companies Yash Raj Films was been directed by the apex consumer forum, NCDRC, to pay Rs 10,000 as compensation to Zaidi. She later moved the Maharashtra State Consumer Commission, which directed the YRF in 2017 to compensate her with Rs 10,000 along with litigation cost of Rs 5,000. She had approached the district forum which had rejected her petition. According to Live Law, she claimed that her children did not eat food on the night when they went to watch the film, as they were disappointed over the fact that the song was not a part of the film - resulting in a spike in their acidity levels and hospitalization. Zaidi had seen the promos of the movie, ‘Fan’, which included the song ‘Jabra Fan’ and decided to watch the film with her family members.
Afreen Fatima Zaidi, a teacher from Maharasthra’s Aurangabad, had sued Yash Raj Films in 2017 for the Shah Rukh Khan stareer film ‘Fan’ for not including the song ‘Jabra Fan’ in the movie itself. For a woman in Maharasthra, when the ‘hype’ didn’t deliver in the movie itself, she took to legal action for misleading audiences. Much before a movie lands, the hype about the movie is what sells it - and if its a starrer with one of the big names in Bollywood, then there’s no end to the hype.
India is one of the only countries in the world where movies and the entertainment industry gets the same treatment we reserve for sports or politics.