India, July 7 -- The ink on Queen 2's shoot wrap is barely dry, and the film is already in the middle of a courtroom battle. Phantom Studios has filed a Rs.250 crore lawsuit against JioStar in the Bombay High Court, alleging that the upcoming Kangana Ranaut-starrer is an "unauthorised sequel" that infringes upon the intellectual property rights of the original 2014 film Queen.

Phantom Studios claims it owns 50 per cent of the intellectual property rights to Queen, including the rights to develop any sequels or derivative works based on the film. The production house maintains that it never gave its consent for this project.

According to the Mid-Day report, Phantom Studios approached the Bombay High Court only after repeated communicatio...