Sunday, January 31, 2021

Why Shankar says Enthiran is not Jugiba of Arur ?

The writer Arur Tamilnandan who leveled a copyright violation case against Director Shankar is a recipient of the Tamil Nadu State Government ‘s Kalaimamani award. The story that has been `plagiarized’ by Shankar is available in a book form titled as “Thik Thik Deepika”.and it has been bought by the State Government and circulated through its libraries. The Supreme Court dismissing the plea by Shankar to dismiss the Madras High Court to proceed with the trial in lower court found the charge of 29 similarities between Arur’s story Jugiba and the motion picture Enthiran to be prima facie true. It however said that this should not be seen as acceptance of Arur’s charge. The main contention of Shankar that his story is different from that of Arur is as follows as per the affidavit given in the court- (ii)The concept of humanoid robots may be same, but, in fact, there are several movies in the past, which had described humanoid robots. The Director of the film being a Diploma Engineer had developed the story of Enthiran for several years. (iii)The story of film Enthiran and Jugiba are entirely different. The Robot in the movie Enthiran does not commit suicide; it resembles its creator; it was created for serving in Army; it does not have any feelings initially and with great difficulty, the scientist brought the feelings in it; it has been loaded with destruction software chip by a rival scientist, subsequently the same was removed and finally, the robot did not commit suicide, but was dismantled and kept in a Museum. Whereas, as per the story Jugiba, the scientist had not created the Robot for any military purpose and in the end of the story, the Robot committed suicide. Therefore, there is no similarity between his film Enthiran and the story Jugiba. Read relevant part of Jugiba - Robin introduces Joshephin to Jugiba ( Robot) as his sweetheart and love. Jugiba extended its metal hand to shake, but Joshepin afraid of it and went back. Robin convinced her that it is more or less a human and it will not harm her. Joshepin extended her hand, after shaking hands Jugiba admired her hand as so soft. Jugiba ogled at Joshepin and started talking to her. It describes Joshepin in poetic form. It also expresses its love to Jospehin and insisted her to live with it.Robin lost his temper and shouted at Jugiba explaining that Jugiba is only a metal and machine; Joshephin is flesh and blood and they cannot live together.Hearing this, Jugiba cries by saying it cannot live without Joshephin. It sheds tears and commits suicide by jumping from the building.” http://www.judis.nic.in Jugiba commits suicide and Robot in Enthiran dismantles itself – is this not similar ? Difference is that Robot was made for military purpose but not Jugiba, it does not rsemble the creator and a self destruction chip was put inside the Robot by a rival scientist. Are these differences alone enough to make Enthiran a original and different from Arur’s. ?

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