The release of Hansal Mehta's movie, "Faraaz," which was set to open in theatres on Friday and is allegedly based on a 2016 terrorist incident in Dhaka, has been disallowed by the Delhi High Court.

On Thursday, the court made it plain that the film's creators must strictly abide by a disclaimer stating that the attack served as inspiration for the story and that all other components are pure fiction. The court was considering a request for intervention made by the relatives of the terrorist attack victims.

The distribution of the movie on February 3 was opposed by the mothers of two victims of the Holey Artisan terrorist assault in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on the grounds of invasion of privacy. Justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh's panel gave the appellants' attorney some extra time to get more legal advice before setting the case for hearing on February 22. The court noted that the filmmakers' attorney has unequivocally claimed that there are no photographs or pictures of the appellants' daughters in the film.

The division bench said it fully agreed with a single-judge bench's opinion on the lengthy disclaimer as the appellants' attorney asked the court to order the filmmakers to cut it.

You want to have some editorial say over the movie. We're sorry, but we're unable to assist you, it continued, adding, "We find nothing erroneous with this disclaimer." The film is slated for release on Friday, according to the creators' legal counsel, and prints have been given out and tickets have been sold. The two women's appeal of the single judge's decision to not stay at the film's screening was being heard by the division bench.

The two women had asked the single judge to prevent the movie from being released because it may portray their daughters in a "bad light," which would not only force them to revisit their trauma but also breach the deceased's right to privacy and lead to defamation.

In contrast to what they claimed before the single judge, their attorney had informed the court that the producers had refused to present the video to the relatives of the two victims and that, when it was screened in London, it featured images of their dead daughters. The women's request for a temporary injunction on the film's release was rejected by the single-judge bench in October of last year.

The "disclaimer" in the movie presumptively allayed their worries because the judge had noted that the deceased's right to privacy was not inheritable by their moms. The appellants had asked for a temporary halt to the film's release because they believed there was a good chance it would portray Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain as the "protagonist or something of the attack," which would be wholly untrue.

The film is a work of fiction that has depicted the attack with the utmost sensitivity, according to the filmmakers, who claimed that the incident was extensively covered by the global media and that there was material in the public domain that revealed intricate details of the attack, including the identities of the victims.