{"id":455538,"date":"2026-02-03T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/455538\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:49:07","slug":"hussain-ustaras-daughter-files-lawsuit-to-stay-release-of-shahid-kapoors-o-romeo-exploiting-human-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/455538\/","title":{"rendered":"Hussain Ustara’s daughter files lawsuit to stay release of Shahid Kapoor’s O Romeo: \u2018Exploiting human tragedy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daughter of Hussain Ustara, Sanober Shaikh, sought a permanent injunction against the release of Vishal Bharadwaj\u2019s upcoming Shahid Kapoor<\/a>-starrer O Romeo on Monday. Filing a lawsuit at a Mumbai civil court, Sanober claimed that the film was an \u2018unauthorised\u2019 biopic of her late father and that it portrays his life \u2018falsely\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"ShahidShahid Kapoor in a still from Vishal Bhardwaj’s O Romeo.Hussain Ustara\u2019s daughter files lawsuit against O Romeo makers<\/p>\n

Sanober filed a civil suit against Sajid Nadiadwala, the producer of O Romeo<\/a>, its director Vishal and journalist-author Hussain Zaidi. Shahid will portray Ustara in the film based on Zaidi\u2019s book, Mafia Queens of Mumbai. The film is slated for release on February 13, but Sanober claimed in the suit that O Romeo was being produced with the \u2018intent of commercial and monetary gain\u2019 without her prior consent.<\/p>\n

Her advocate, DV Saroj, filed the suit, in which it is mentioned that O Romeo is based on her father, who has been \u2018portrayed as a gangster\u2019. She fears that the movie\u2019s release will cause \u2018irreparable injury\u2019 to her and her children, who have \u2018every right to live in the world in peace and a good atmosphere\u2019. \u201cThe release of the movie containing a false portrayal would have a serious implication on the plaintiffs’ family members,\u201d mentions the suit.<\/p>\n

Sanober argued that her father contributed to preventing crimes across India and in Mumbai, helping the police track criminals. She asserted that the producer and director are \u2018exploiting a human tragedy for commercial gain\u2019 and that O Romeo\u2019s release would \u2018besmirch the character of a dead person\u2019. The court will hear the matter on February 6.<\/p>\n

Legal notices previously sent by Hussain Ustara\u2019s daughter<\/p>\n

Sanober mentioned in the suit that in replies to legal notices sent by her, Vishal and Sajid\u2019s production house vehemently denied her claims, asserting that O Romeo is purely a \u2018work of fiction\u2019. However, she submitted materials supporting her claim of a direct link between the film and her father, including a podcast interview in which a former police officer connected O Romeo to Ustara.<\/p>\n

Sanober urged the court to grant a permanent injunction restraining O Romeo\u2019s makers from releasing the film in theatres, on TV, or on any OTT platform on February 13 or any other day. In January, after the release of O Romeo\u2019s teaser, Ustara\u2019s daughter spoke to Hindustan Times<\/a> and denied she had threatened the makers. \u201cThey are claiming and showing wrong things about my father. They are saying that we threatened them and asked for \u20b92 crore. That\u2019s wrong. They are making such claims for publicity of the film. We have sent them a legal notice,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the press at the trailer launch, Vishal spoke about the issue and told the press, \u201cThis film is from the book, Mafia Queens of Mumbai, by Hussain Zaidi, and I\u2019ve taken the rights of this story. I didn\u2019t think (of the permission). The germ of the idea and the characters are the same, but we\u2019ve added a lot of fictional elements, which permission Hussain Zaidi sahab has taken or should\u2019ve taken. I don\u2019t think it was needed for me to take permission because it is based on a book.\u201d <\/p>\n

O Romeo stars Shahid Kapoor, Triptii Dimri<\/a>, Nana Patekar, Avinash Tiwary, Tamannaah Bhatia, Disha Patani, Farida Jalal and Vikrant Massey. It is produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment and written and directed by Vishal Bharadwaj. It remains to be seen if the lawsuit hinders the film\u2019s release on February 13.<\/p>\n

With inputs from PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daughter of Hussain Ustara, Sanober Shaikh, sought a permanent injunction against the release of Vishal Bharadwaj\u2019s upcoming Shahid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,223564,344,234884,234883,58378],"class_list":["post-455538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-hussain-ustara","tag-movies","tag-o-romeo-lawsuit","tag-sanober-shaikh","tag-shahid-kapoor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}