19 August,2026 06:36 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Kala Hiran makers (Pic/X, AFP)
The legal battle surrounding Kala Hiran - The Battle For Legacy has reached the Supreme Court. Producer Amit Jani has challenged the Delhi High Court's interim order directing the removal of the film's teaser and promotional material. The plea comes after Salman Khan alleged that the campaign violated his personality rights and harmed his reputation.
Film producer Amit Jani has moved the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court order directing the removal of the teaser and related promotional material for his film, Kala Hiran - The Battle For Legacy. The Delhi High Court, in an interim order on July 27, ordered the makers of the film to immediately take down its teaser and related promotional content, holding that the material prima facie violated Bollywood actor Salman Khan's personality rights and was causing irreparable harm to his reputation.
The case before the High Court arose from the release of the teaser of the film on July 17, 2026, and its subsequent circulation through press releases, promotional videos, social media posts, YouTube videos, podcasts, and other online and offline content.
Salman Khan had alleged before the High Court that the campaign commercially exploited his personality without his consent. Khan had contended that the two-minute teaser unmistakably portrayed the actor through a fictional character named 'Ayan Khan', while incorporating references to his films Dabangg and Sikandar, as well as details linked to the pending blackbuck poaching case.
His plea before the High Court said that the teaser of the proposed film is set entirely within a courtroom, depicting, in a dramatised form, the trial of the actor described as 'Superstar' for the alleged killing of a blackbuck, and showcases the examination of witnesses, forensic conclusions, as well as threats and inducements to witnesses.
After Salman's claims, producer Amit Jani had received several death threats, including some from Pakistani terrorists as well. He wrote on X, "I am receiving calls and messages late at night from Shahzad Bhatti, the declared Pakistani terrorist, threatening to kill me in a drone and grenade attack while taking Salman Khan's side. I have informed the Ministry of Home Affairs, Rajasthan Police, and CRPF officials. Salman Khan is fighting on two fronts."
