The Chennai High Court today dismissed the petition filed by Senthil Kumar, seeking a ban on Kamal's Dasavatharam, claiming that the story of the movie is similar to that of his.

Earlier, a case filed by Senthil Kumar in this regard was turned down by a High Court judge quoting lack of proper evidence.

However, an aggrieved Senthil Kumar filed a petition, which came up for hearing before the High Court Division Bench comprising of Chief Justice Shah and Justice Jyothimani. Both the parties were ordered to submit their version of the stories to substantiate their stand after which they were summoned by the judges for enquiries. After the investigations, the Judges came to the conclusion that the stories of Senthil Kumar and Kamal had no similarities. The judges, in their verdict, had held that though both the stories contain 10 roles of the same characters, there were no visible similarities between the stories.

Then there is the single most distinguishing factor. The main protagonist of the team does not play the game, he coaches. Try as hard as we may, we might not be able to remember a movie where the hero (and such a big star) has been relegated to the sidelines. Shah Rukh Khan gets all the spotlight that he may want from a movie. The role of a coach in the making of a team and its victory may have never been highlighted in such a manner before. In the movie he is the mentor, the unifier, the tyrant, the ‘gunda’ (as he says in a scene) and the strategist (jut as a coach should be) and all these facets have been shown. So, if you think that Chak De India is another routine sports movie then think again. Yes, it is the story about an underdog coming from nowhere and winning the coveted the prize, but it has been told in a different way, from a different perspective. That’s why Chak De India stands out from the crowd.