Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and its owner Kavya Maran have had a loud week. The franchise was already in the middle of a storm after Sunrisers Leeds bought Pakistan spinner Abrar Ahmed at The Hundred auction. The move that did not go down well with many Indian fans. Now, the wider Sun ecosystem has landed in another major controversy, this time involving Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and a legal battle in the Madras High Court.

According to The Indian Express, Sun TV Network Limited has filed a copyright infringement suit against CSK for allegedly using songs, dialogues and background score elements from Jailer, Jailer 2 and Coolie in a promotional video released ahead of IPL 2026. The video, put out by CSK on March 1 to unveil their new jersey, used audio closely associated with Rajinikanth’s films. It quickly caught attention online but was later taken down and re-uploaded with changes to the sound.

That, it now appears, was not a random edit. In its plaint, accessed by Indian Express, Sun TV argued that the films in question were its productions and that composer Anirudh Ravichander had assigned all music exploitation rights to the company through a written agreement. The network alleged that CSK had used copyrighted material without permission across multiple social media platforms, including Instagram, X, YouTube and Facebook.