LONDON, July 3: Director and producer of the well-known Jinnah, a film on the life of the Quad-i-Azam, won a case of compensation against the company that had sponsored the movie.

Director Jamil Delhavi told Dawn here that a London court had ordered the UK company, Quaid Project, to pay him 49,000 pounds together with 9,000 pounds of interest and all the legal costs of the case.

Quaid Project was the brainchild of a Pakistani intellectual, writer and an ex-high commissioner of the country to London, Akbar S Ahmed.

The movie, which was completed nearly five years ago, could not do well in the commercial film industry of the west as hoped and promised by its sponsor.

Jamil Delhavi, also the director of successful Blood of Hussain and Immaculate Conception, had filed a suit in the London High Court more than a year ago contending that he was owed money by the producing company, a claim challenged by the defendant.

The court, in its judgment, held that Mr Delhavi was owed sterling 49,000 pounds plus interest and his legal costs. Akbar S Ahmed was in the court when the judgment was announced.

Pakistan had also put a good deal of money into the movie, as did a sizeable number of Pakistanis living abroad, including such men as former caretaker premier Moeen Qureshi and Dr Nasim Ashraf.