Filmmaker S Shankar accused of Copyright violation over remake of Movie ‘Anniyan’

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Filmmaker S Shankar accused of Copyright violation over remake of Movie ‘Anniyan’

By Pallavi Paul

South filmmaker S Shankar recently announced that he is going to make a Hindi remake of his Tamil blockbuster movie ‘Anniyan’ with Actor Ranveer Singh playing the lead role. Within a day of this announcement, producer of the movie ‘Anniyan’, V Ravichandran of Aascar Film Pvt Ltd., sent a legal notice to filmmaker Shankar accusing him of copyright violation. He stated that he is the admitted author of the literary work and nobody has the right to interfere with the same under any circumstances.

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By Pallavi Paul

In the legal notice, he mentioned that the entire story rights of the movie were purchased by him from writer Sujatha for which full payment had been done and that he has in his possession all the necessary documents to prove the same. As he is the whole and sole owner of the rights of the storyline of the movie, any remaking or copying of the main plot of the said movie without his due permission is completely illegal and unlawful. However, filmmaker S Shankar refuted the claims and stated that the script of the movie ‘Anniyan’ is with him and he is entitled to exploit it and that this accusation of copyright violation is a deliberate attempt to jeopardize his future projects.

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