The Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association wants everyone to slow down on a Bombay High Court order that's been doing the rounds since the weekend.

IMPPA put out a statement clarifying what it calls an inaccurate reading of a recent High Court directive connected to a commercial dispute between Saffron Magicworks Private Limited, run by Nikhil Dwivedi, and Andolan Films Private Limited, run by Vikramaditya Motwane. IMPPA itself has been impleaded in the case, which is how it ended up fielding questions about an order that, on paper, isn't even about IMPPA's own conduct.

Bollywood Hungama had earlier reported that Saffron Magicworks secured a restraining order against IMPPA from the Bombay High Court. That framing is exactly what IMPPA is now disputing.

The association's version goes like this. The underlying dispute between Saffron Magicworks and Andolan Films was placed before IMPPA's own Dispute Resolution Committee, an internal body set up under its Memorandum and Articles of Association. Whatever the committee decided, IMPPA says, applied to the two companies and the specific issues they'd brought to it. Nothing more.

"No blanket restraining order has been passed against IMPPA restraining the discharge of its institutional functions," the association said in its statement. It went further, saying it has no independent commercial stake in the fight between Dwivedi's and Motwane's companies, and that some of the reporting circulating right now doesn't reflect what the court order actually says or what it means for IMPPA specifically.

Worth sitting with that distinction. An association that runs dispute resolution for producers getting pulled into a case as a party is routine legal housekeeping. An association getting restrained by a court from doing its job is a different story altogether, and a much bigger one for anyone with business before IMPPA's committees. That's the gap IMPPA is trying to close with this statement.

The association said it won't accept any characterisation of the order that goes beyond its express terms, and that it intends to keep functioning as usual, in line with the law, its own governing rules and whatever the court has actually directed.

What's missing here is the order itself, and neither side has laid out in public what triggered the Saffron-Andolan dispute in the first place, only that it landed before IMPPA's Dispute Resolution Committee before making its way to the High Court. Until the two production houses or the court clarify what's actually being contested, this reads like a dispute over the dispute, with IMPPA caught holding the paperwork.