India, Feb. 10 -- The Madras High Court has directed producer J Murali Manohar and his production house, MediaOne Global Entertainment Limited, to pay Rs.2.52 crore within four weeks or face a six-month imprisonment sentence. The case pertaining to Soundarya Rajinikanth's 2014 Rajinikanth and Deepika Padukone-starrer Kochadaiiyaan involves compensation to an advertising agency and a cheque bounce.

Justice Sunder Mohan passed the orders in the Madras HC while partly allowing a criminal revision case filed by J Murali Manohar and his production house. It was filed against the conviction and sentence imposed on them by a metropolitan magistrate in 2021 and confirmed by a city civil court in 2023.

The HC has directed Manohar to pay Rs.2.52 ...