 ‘Shona Shona

 even though it was exclusively released on We-Tube

 Zender had signed him up for one of their youth icon ambassador programmes
 We-Tube, a streaming platform, was owned by V-Series Pvt. Ltd.
 winner of the famous reality show ‘Big Brother’ in the year 2020,
 telecasted on an Over-The-Top (OTT) platform owned by VSeries Pvt. Ltd
 V-Series Pvt. Ltd. entered into an exclusive agreement dated 1st March, 2020 with Siddharth
whereby Siddharth had assigned all his rights and interests in his personality to V-Series Pvt. Ltd.
for a period of two years. As per the terms of the agreement, V-Series Pvt. Ltd. also had the
exclusive right over all works and creations of Siddharth for the term of the agreement, even in
case of untimely demise of Siddharth.
 father Madan Mohan Asthana
 ‘Padamshri’
 he was completely against Siddharth’s inclination towards becoming a social media influencer
and his decision to move to Mumbai in 2017
 They had not spoken to each other since the day he left for Mumbai.
 Shehnaaz Hossain, was Siddharth’s girlfriend and they were staying in Mumbai in a
liverelationship for more than a year now
 There were strong rumours in public that Siddharth and Shehnaaz had gotten secretly married in
early January 2021 as per customary practices and only a formal announcement was awaited.
 unfortunately passed away on 28th February, 2021.
 Madan Mohan Asthana refused to recognize Shehnaaz as his daughter-in-law and blamed her
influence for his son’s untimely demise.
 Shehnaaz, on 31st December, 2021 announced vide a post on Twitter that she is working on the
script of a documentary which will be taking inspiration from Siddharth’s life and that the same
would be released on 28th February, 2022
 also revealed that the documentary will include 2-3 love songs penned down, sung and
recorded by Siddharth, expressing his love for Shehnaaz which were in her possession
 these songs were recorded by Siddharth during the period when nationwide lockdown was
imposed in the country, no one else was aware about the existence of these songs apart from
Shehnaaz, till this announcement
 announcement by Shehnaaz created a media frenzy and it lead to many OTT platforms calling
up Shehnaaz’s manager expressing their interest in wanting to stream the same and seeking an
appointment
 Shehnaaz finally entered into a production agreement with V-Series Pvt. Ltd., owing to V-Series
Pvt. Ltd.’s long association with Siddharth.
 Madan Mohan Asthana,
 very upset
 by commercially exploiting his son’s legacy and memories.
 that Shehnaaz would use this documentary as a tool to portray Siddharth’s family in a bad light
particularly him as an estranged, unloving, domineering father.
 Madan Mohan Asthana filed a suit before High Court of Delhi in January, 2022 claiming to be the
legal heir of Siddharth and seeking injunction against Shehnaaz from using Siddharth’s life and
story in any documentary or film contending that any such publication, production or depiction
would be an infringement of personality rights, publicity rights and privacy right of his deceased
son.
 V-Series Pvt. Ltd then terminated their agreement with Shehnaaz and filed a suit seeking specific
performance of the terms of the contract along with damages against Shehnaaz in the High
Court of Delhi
 Zender also then filed a suit for injunction in Patiala House Court, New Delhi claiming to have
ownership over all content broadcast by Siddharth through
 their platform such as their game changing 30-second ‘feels’ against all persons wanting to use
this tragedy for their own interest and not to use any song published or photo uploaded on the
same.