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The Delhi High Court on Monday imposed a fine of Rs.10 lakh on film maker Ram Gopal Varma and his production house for making the remake of 1975 blockbuster 'Sholay', which violated the exclusive copyright vested with its director Ramesh Sippy. Justice Manmohan Singh said that Varma and others by making "Ram Gopal Varma ke Sholay: have "intentionally and deliberately" brought the movie in violation of plaintiffs' exclusive moral rights of copyright. The court's order came on a lawsuit filed by Sascha Sippy, son and grandson of original Sholay's producers Vijay Sippy and G.P. Sippy, alleging that remake was violative of exclusive copyright held by the Sholay Media and Entertainment Pvt Ltd. The court slapped a fine of Rs.10 lakh as "punitive damages" on Varma, his production house M/S RGV Productions Pvt Ltd as well as Varma Corporation Ltd and Madhu Varma and restrained them from using any character like "Gabbar or Gabbar Singh" in the original film. "The publicity material coupled with the impugned film, gives an overall impression that it is a remake of the film 'Sholay'," the order said. "The use of similar plot and characters in the impugned film coupled with use of the underlying music, lyrics and background score and even dialogues from the original film 'Sholay' amounts to infringement of copyright in the film 'Sholay'." The 1975 blockbuster featured Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Jaya Bachchan and Amjad Khan among others.
Lets Talk About Sex, says Ram Gopal Verma
Ram Gopal Verma is doing all sorts of things these days. He is all set to fight a legal battle with the Sippy's over the 'Sholay' remake, gear up for the release of 'Nishabd' but he also has sex on his mind too. Pritish Nandy and RGV have a character named 'Sex' in their forthcoming 'Sex Haazir Ho' which is based on sex and pornography. Now, isn't that an unusual topic. It has been learnt that the film deals with sex based issues. So, what's it all about? It is said to be a court room drama with accusations against Sex. The cast of the film has yet not been decided but it aims at destroying sexual hypocrisy. If that is the case then why has RGV always denied his flings with starlets and actresses like Urmila Matondkar, Nisha Kothari, Jiah Khan, Antara Mali to name only a few? Practice before preaching'.Right Mr Verma!
Charges of fraud, conspiracy and extortion against Ram Gopal Verma
Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. owner of leading music label T-Series has lodged an FIR against Ram Gopal Verma in the Noida Police Station (Sector 20),Uttar Pradesh. The charges levied on him included fraud, conspiracy, extortion, cheating and criminal breach of trust, under IPC Sections 385, 409, 420, 421 and 422. Mr. Ram Gopal Verma had entered into a contract assigning Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series) Music Rights for 14 of his forthcoming films in June 2006. The said contract was duly performed and acted upon by both the parties and since then four out of the said 14 films namely DARWAJA BAND RAKHO, NISHABD, RGV KI AAG & SHIVA have been released by T-SERIES. T-SERIES had also made payments for the same and had also made advance payments for forthcoming films by RGV. Mr Verma had tried to terminate the said contract in November 2007 on grounds that were not acceptable to T-SERIES. Realizing that Mr. Verma was acting unreasonable, T-SERIES in order to secure its interest and rights under the said contract moved the District Court of Noida, Uttar Pradesh on 23-1-2008. On 23-1-2008 the Hon'ble Court issued notice against RGV Film Factory Private Limited and RGV Films Private Limited and issued summons asking them to appear and defend the suit. Instead of developing the case against him RGV has been going to press claiming that documents are forged and fabricated. He has not specified exactly which document is forged and fabricated. RGV had firstly filed a complaint with Jt. Commissioner Police (EOW), Mumbai and recently filed another compliant at the Versova police station as reported by the media. Looking at the proceedings, SCIL has been constrained to file a criminal complaint in the police station.
Ram Gopal Varma lets out personal secrets
Director Ram Gopal Varma revealed a softer side of his heart as well the enormous respect he has for the Big B when he made an apology to Megastar Amitabh Bachchan for persuading Big B to act in 'Aag' and 'Nishabad'. Big B in return gave a replay that can be cherished by Ram Gopal Varma for ever. Although in both the films Amitabh was seen in roles that he has never done before, the films turned out to be total disasters at the box office. During the trailer release of 'Sarkar Raj', the director of the new film told the media that in a way he misused the great actor by giving him the two roles and in spite of Big B having apprehensions on these two roles, he forced him to bring these characters into life in the screen. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan in response praised the director for making him do that roles as for him as an actor it was quite challenging to do justice to that characters and it was an entirely new experience for him. The Bollywood star also said of himself as a great fan of Ram Gopal Varma's films and that he has a great faith in the film maker. Being a self confessed die hard fan of Amitabh Bachchan right from his younger days, what more does Ram Gopal Varma need than these humble words of admiration from his greatest screen idol.
Ram Gopal Varma- surely the unpredictable
Ram Gopal Varma had told before that Amitabh Bachchan is one of the reasons why he got attracted to the Tinsel Town. Now Big B has inspired Ramu to keep aside his computer illiteracy and be internet savvy. So the master of gangster movies who till now never thought of becoming a blogger has started to speak his mind out through a blog. RGV says that he tried to go for the unexplored territory after seeing the dedication of Mr.Bachchan to his blog. But don't expect the hot shot director to be just as keen to update like Big B and make his blog a window to the events in his personal life. The unpredictable director has already said that he has neither the interest nor the time and patience to keep updating his space every other day and that out of the numerous queries that he gets from the public, the ones that he feels is to be answered will be given the replies. The director who had earlier laughed of the idea of joining the blogging bandwagon has now said that if he had considered this idea of communicating personally with his admirers before, he could have cut short lots of speculations about some of his earlier movies very easily. Mr.Varma said that when 'Nishabd' was released everyone thought it to be a take on the Hollywood flick 'Lolita'. At that time there was no channel through which the reasons why this film is not at all based on 'Lolita' could be explained in a proper way. For the lakhs of fans of this Bollywood filmmaker, this blog is a great way of knowing the director inside him and also to get clear explanations about his future projects. Ram Gopal Varma has made it clear that the blog is a platform for a self conversation as he feels that expression of thoughts becomes very difficult once the questions are thrown at you and not a substitute for the interviews. In the coming days Ram Gopal Varma will come to know personally about a certain fact that till now he might not have felt that much. There is a good chance that he gets amazed to know the large number of people from around the world who are his die hard fans.
Ram Gopal Varma meets Gautham Menon
Noted Bollywood film-maker Ramgopal Verma was in Chennai on Monday to promote his to-be released 'Phoonk'. The movie stars popular Kannada actor Sudeep in the lead role. Interestingly Gautham Menon had a visitor call on him in Chennai. It was none-other-than the acclaimed director Ram Gopal Varma. The two reportedly discussed the nuances of film-making. It is not clear yet if they discussed any future project. Gautham is currently directing Suriya for 'Varanam Ayiram'. According to RGV, ''Phoonk' will be hitting theatres on the 22nd of August, he said, It's a scary tale. The tagline of the film is already there'€” 'its superstition till its happens to you''. It is the story of an atheist construction engineer Rajiv, his wife and two children. He ridicules both God and the dark forces. All of a sudden, one terrifying day, an evil force strikes his household and brings it on the verge of destruction. The very foundations of his atheism, convictions and beliefs are thoroughly shaken, thanks to black magic.'