Quaid-e-Azam Zindabad: Filmmaker sends Rs500m notice to Daraz

Quaid-e-Azam Zindabad filmmaker Nabeel Qureshi has sent Rs500 million legal notice to Daraz.pk to compensate financial damages for illegally selling pirated copies of the film on online marketplaces.

The legal notice has demanded online shopping portal, Daraz.pk, to stop selling the film on the online marketplace within 24 hours and terminate the accounts of illegal sellers.

Nabeel Qureshi shared the legal notice sent to Diraz.pk on his Twitter handle and wrote, “We have served a legal notice to http://Daraz.pk for selling our film #quaideazamzindabad pirated version on their website illegally and damaging the film business while its playing in Cinemas across pakistan & abroad, #boycottdaraz we believe in our justice system.”

We have served a legal notice to https://t.co/qxEU6dn6Xe for selling our film #quaideazamzindabad pirated version on their website illegally and damaging the film business while its playing in Cinemas across pakistan & abroad, #boycottdaraz we believe in our justice system. pic.twitter.com/p6HBPVyQs0

— Nabeel Qureshi (@nabeelqureshi) August 19, 2022

The legal notice sent to Daraz stated that the Eid-ul-Adha release of the film was restricted to theatres only and all the rights to its sale were held by Filmwala Productions, but your website has many accounts of the film. continues to be illegally sold while an account called Digital Express has sold pirated versions of the film in large numbers.

The legal notice sought Daraz to stop the illegal sale of the film on its website within 24 hours and to pay damages of Rs500 million to Filmwala Productions for harming the business of the film by permanently terminating the accounts involved in it. Otherwise strict legal action will be taken.

Commenting on the director’s tweet, a user wrote that this has been going on for over a month and that post was also included in Daraz advertising campaign and the film has been sold to more than 500 people from one account so far and others. Accounts are also doing this which have not been exposed so far.

Surprisingly, Daraz PK is illegally selling the pirated version of Pakistani movie Quaid-e-Azam Zindabad at the online shopping portal at Rs20. Fahad Mustafa and Nabeel Qureshi have criticised the illegal sale.