A local court in Jaipur on Wednesday asked the makers of actor Akshay Kumar’s “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha” to file a reply to the charge of violation of the Copyright Act by July 31.
Violation of Copyright act
- A copyright infringement case was brought up by Jaipur-based filmmaker Pratik Sharma against
- Plan C Studios, an alliance between Reliance Entertainment and Friday Filmworks helmed
- by Neeraj Pandey and Shital Bhatia, and Viacom18 on July 7 in a Jaipur Metropolitan Court.
- Sharma furthermore, alleged that the makers have lifed the punchline and the subject from his film “Gutrun Gutar Gun”.
- “Today, Jaipur Metropolitan Court has asked to file a reply or enter into arguments in the
- case of copyright violation by 11 a.m. July 31,” G.D. Bansal, advocate of Sharma said in conclusion.
- The court in addition had earlier issued a notice returnable on July 22.
- But as a strike by the clerical staff was going on, the court gave the respondents July 26 as a new date for filing their reply.
- “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha”, directed by Shree Narayan Singh, deals with the need of sanitisation in India
- and is based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat campaign.
- Furthermore ,it features Bhumi Pednekar with Akshay Kumar.