Overview
- The producer transferred ₹50 lakh to Ilaiyaraaja via RTGS after deducting 10% TDS, as recorded in a joint memorandum of compromise.
- Two Ilaiyaraaja songs used in Dude will continue on the version streaming on an OTT platform, while the makers will desist from using three of his tracks in Good Bad Ugly going forward.
- Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy decreed the suits in terms of the November 28 compromise memo and closed the related applications, with each side bearing its own costs.
- Ilaiyaraaja had sued over the alleged unauthorised use of five songs composed between 1982 and 1996 and had earlier obtained interim injunctions during the proceedings.
- The compromise describes the payment as a commercial settlement and gratitude, and Ilaiyaraaja agreed to make a public statement about the resolution.