Monday, July 19, 2021

Director Shankar -Ram Charan film in plagiarism row - Lingusamy Telugu film too in same boat

Director Shankar project with Telugu Star Ram Charan has run into a plagiarism charge even before the launch. Shankar is already fighting a decade long court case over plagiarism charge filed by a short story writer for the Robot 2.0 story. Meanwhile Lingusamy from Kollywood who started his Telugu film with Ram Potheneni is facing fresh charges of the subject being a copy of the story written by actor- director turned politician Seeman. Though a compromise letter was given by all parties in favour of Lingusamy, a new complaint has been filed with the Writers Association.

Chinnaswamy, an Assistant director has filed a complaint with the Writers Association that he had narrated the subject to producer Dil Raju. Raju has given this subject to Shankar to make the Telugu film. The manuscript of the story is already in the file and registered with the Association.

The details of the story are not available, Sources say that the subject is about a farmer and his son who gets cheated of their lands in the name of development. The fight against the CM who spearheaded this development scheme but is trapped in a web of land sharks forms the subject.

The film was said to be another Gentleman with political overtones. Ram Charan was said to play father and son. The plagiarism charge usually crops up after the teaser is released. The AD claims that he had gathered from the Shankar team about the outline of the subject.

In another related development, Director Karthik Subburaj ( Petta, Jagame Thanthiram and Chiyan 50) is said to have told a subject to Shankar and that is the story that will be made into a screenplay, said sources.

Seeman had claimed that Lingusamy was making his story into a Telugu film with Ram Pothneni. Lingusamy claimed that Seeman had years back agreed to allow him to use the subject and that too in writing. Finally with Bhagyaraj and others intervention a letter was drafted by which Lingusamy was free to use the story. Now an AD has filed a complaint that he had filed a similar story with the Writer Association.

Shankar’s move to remake Anniyan sequel in Hindi with Ranveer has been disputed by the Tamil producer Aascar Ravichandran who claimed IP rights over the subject.

 

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