Will Rakhi Ka Swayamvar be stayed?

By Subhash K Jha

A Jaipur court on Tuesday ordered the filing of a criminal case of copyright violation against Rakhi Sawant, Ravi Kissan and four others associated with the reality show Rakhi Ka Swayamvar, putting a big question mark on the live wedding telecast on August 2.

But Samir Nair CEO of NDTV Imagine seems unperturbed. "We're telecasting the marriage deferred- live (minutes after actual shooting) and we don't anticipate any trouble.

This guy from Jaipur (Gaurav Tiwari) filed a case against us in a district court. They passed an order against him. Then he moved to the High Court. His case was dismissed from there. Now he has filed a criminal case against us.

Our legal team is looking into it as we speak. Strange that the case has gone from civil to criminal. This guy runs a portal and claims he owns the word swayamvar. It's like me claiming I own the word Ramayan or Mahabharat. There's shadi-com. So we can't do soap with the word shaadi?"