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'Knock Out' injunction is lifted

An injunction against the release of Knock Out has been lifted within one hour of the order being given.

An Indian High Court stopped Sohail Maklai Entertainment (SME) from releasing Knock Out, after Twentieth Century Fox sought an injunction against the release, claiming that they had plagarised their film Phone Booth.

Almost immediately afterwards, SME appealed, saying that there were only three common elements to the film and the concepts were entirely different, with the order then being lifted.

Both films show a victim being taken hostage within a phone booth and forced to confess a secret, but director Mani Shankar is adamant that there is no copyright infringement.

“Just because my film shows some shots of a man in a phone booth being targeted by a man with a gun, it doesn't mean I've made Phone Booth," he said.

“How utterly ridiculous! It's like saying every love story which has a climax on the airport is copied.”

Knock Out is released today.

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