Ilaiyaraaja-Good Bad Ugly authorized tussle: Ajith Kumars movie unavailable on Netflix

Tamil celebrity Ajith Kumar’s blockbuster movie, Good Bad Ugly, has been faraway from the streaming platform Netflix in India. This comes simply ten days after the Madras High Court restrained the movie’s manufacturing home Mythri Movie Makers from utilizing Ilaiyaraaja’s songs within the movie.

On September 17, 2025 (Wednesday), followers of the star took to social media to precise their disappointment over not having the ability to entry the film on the streaming web site.

Good Bad Ugly, directed by Adhik Ravichandran, was releasd in theatres on April 10, 2025. The film has three songs composed by Ilaiyaraaja from his yesteryear Tamil motion pictures — ‘Oththa Roova’ from Nattupura Pattu (1996), ‘Ilamai Idho Idho’ from the Kamal Haasan-starrer Sakalakala Vallavan (1982) and ‘En Jodi Manja Kuruvi’ from Vikram (1986).

Post the discharge, Ilaiyaraaja filed a copyright infringement swimsuit in opposition to the manufacturing home, stating the banner didn’t acquire permission from him to make use of the songs within the film. The music maestro demanded the elimination of the songs from the movie and ₹5 crore as compensation. The Madras High Court granted an ex-parte interim order in favour of Ilaiyaraaja because the manufacturing home had given a “dangerous” reply to a authorized discover issued to it.

In its reply to the authorized discover, Mythri Movie Makers had claimed to have obtained essential authorisation from the homeowners of the copyright, however failed to provide particulars with respect to the people/corporations from which such authorisation had been obtained and the character of such authorisation.

This isn’t the primary time the composer took the authorized route over the unauthorised use of his songs. Earlier, he had issued a authorized discover to Sun Pictures over the allegedly unlawful use of a music from his 1983 movie Thanga Magan of their upcoming Rajinikanth-starrer Coolie. He had additionally issued a authorized discover to the producers of the Malayalam film Manjummel Boys for “unlawfully exploiting” the music ‘Kanmani Anbodu,’ from the Tamil film Guna, of their film.

It stays unknown if and when Good Bad Ugly will return to streaming. It is to be famous that the movie remains to be obtainable on Netflix within the US, as per social media customers.