Director Anubhav Sinha's Mulk starring Rishi Kapoor and Taapsee Pannu was slated to release on August 3. But on Monday morning, reports started doing the rounds that a session court in Mumbai has stayed the order on the release of the film. The court order came after an application was filed by Vandana Punwani asking the court to ban the film from releasing.

Now after the further hearing on Tuesday, July 31, an additional session judge decided in the favour of the makers of Mulk and granted them to release the film on August 3 itself. We got our hands on the legal document.

Take a look:

For the unversed, Mulk is said to be associated with the production and entertainment agency Benaras Media Works Limited. This agency is in legal disputed with Vandana Punwani over property rent dues and disputes. Punwani's claim was since the company is associated with the release of the film should stay until the disputes were resolved.

Meanwhile, reacting to the fiasco, Anubhav Sinha had earlier tweeted, "A court order restraining the release of the film Mulk directed by me has been circulating in Whatsapp groups and the social media. No such orders have been served upon us. If someone has mischievously misled the court and if the court has really passed such an order we shall move in a petition to vacate the same ASAP. Meanwhile logistically all arrangements are in place to release the film on the set date August 3."

https://twitter.com/anubhavsinha/status/1023958149424807941

As for the film, Mulk sheds the light on a topic everyone tiptoes around, Islamophobia.  Taapsee plays a lawyer in the film, Aarti Mohammed who takes to fighting a case in the court to battle the allegations on her father-in-law who becomes the victim of religious discrimination on being accused of raising a terrorist son.