Wednesday 21 January 2015

Another Court Notice to makers of ‘PK’ for alleged plagiarism



Yet another controversy hits PK and now it is not on the grounds of religion but theft of ideas, scenes and characters. The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the producers and directors of Aamir Khan-starrer PK on a novelist’s plea accusing the makers of the movie of plagiarising certain portions from his Hindi book Farishta published in 2013.
“The film’s producer, actor and scriptwriter have stolen the characters, expression of ideas, scenes (sequences) from my novel Farishta”, alleges scriptwriter Abhijat Joshi.
He also claimed that various other issues raised by the movie have been “copied” from his book.

“That the novel has many more such situations which have been very cleverly copied by the defendants in the film by making minor changes and insignificant variations,” the petition claimed.
He sought punitive damages of Rs one crore from the makers along with credit for his work.
Justice Najmi Waziri asked Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Raj Kumar Hirani, who directed the film, their respective production companies and scriptwriter Abhijat Joshi to appear before joint registrar of the High Court on April 16 for recording of evidence in this regard.
“Notice issued. Let them (film makers) say what they have to say in regard to the allegation before joint registrar,” the judge said.
Watch this space for more updates on another PK controversy.


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