The Delhi High Court today issued notice to the producers and directors of Aamir Khan‘s ‘PK’ on a novelist’s plea accusing the makers of the movie of plagiarising certain portions from his Hindi book ‘Farishta’ published in 2013.
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.
The court’s notice came on a plea by Kapil Isapuri alleging that Chopra and Hirani, directors of the film, their production companies and scriptwriter Joshi have “stolen the characters, expression of ideas, scenes (sequences) from the novel”.
He sought punitive damages of Rs one crore from the makers along with credit for his work.
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.
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