India, Nov. 8 -- Part 1 have warned that anyone recording the film inside a cinema and circulating the footage will face criminal, civil and contempt proceedings, after a legal notice was published on the film's official Instagram handle. The mythological epic has drawn viewers in India and overseas since its November 5 release.

The notice cites two Bombay High Court orders, dated November 2 and November 6, 2026, passed in a commercial intellectual property suit, barring identified as well as unidentified persons from capturing, uploading or disseminating the film, or any portion of it, without permission. Clips shot inside theatres have reportedly been in circulation online.

According to the notice, such recording infringes copyright, ...