The Supreme Court gave a direction to Tamil Nadu government to give an opportunity of hearing to producer-director Sohan Roy who has challenged the State’s decision to ban the screening of his film 'Dam 999'.

Roy, in his writ petition, questioned the 'subjective satisfaction' of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaaa, and purposely arrived at based on 'narrow political objectives,' and said that it should not come in the way of the right guaranteed to him under the Constitution.

He said the impugned order dated 24th November had no constitutional, much less any legal basis, and did not come under limitations of reasonable restrictions.

The director said his film is primarily a love story with a backdrop of dam collapse and the ban on his movie came as a surprise to him.

A bench of justices A K Ganguly and J S Khehar said the State Home Secretary shall give the hearing to Roy and his counsel at Chennai on 12th December and thereafter will pass a 'reasoned' order on the issue by 16th December.