India, June 27 -- The Bombay High Court has restored producer Sunil Darshan's appeal against actor Sunny Deol in a long-running dispute over the shelved film Good Morning India, reviving his challenge to a 2015 order that upheld an arbitral award.

The appeal had been dismissed by the high court on June 9 for non-prosecution after no one appeared for Darshan on several occasions. The producer later moved an interim application seeking restoration, which the court allowed on Thursday.

The dispute dates back to 2008, when Deol had agreed to star in Good Morning India and provide 40 shooting days. According to Darshan, the actor rejected the initial script, approved a revised version but later failed to cooperate with the production and eve...