Amit Masurkar’s directorial ‘Newton’ has hit the theaters on 22nd September, started off with no sound, the movie has come to limelight after authorities declared it as 2017’s Oscar-nominated movie from India.

‘Newton’ has already earned the admiration and affections of the multiplexes crowd. With the announcement of the nomination, the movie now raised the bars of Indian cinema yet again. People started rushing to theaters to set their eyes on the most realistic Election drama movie that is set up in the forest areas of Chattisgarh.

This Raj Kumar Rao’s another best of till now movies have observed a considerable rise in terms of box office, thanks to the Film Federation of India (FFI), for genuinely valuing the spellbound drama.

People on social media platforms went praising the actor for choosing such eccentric scripts, and netizens even showered the director Amit Masurkar for attempting such phenomenal movie. Amidst all these certain allegations surfaced the Internet, it is claimed that the movie is inspired from a 2002’s Iranian movie ‘Secret Ballot’, as both the storylines appeared to be same, netizens went questioning the authenticity in script and plot.

In a bid to clear the air, the director has finally opened up on the issue, he made certain statements on the plagiarism issues, said that he is not even aware of the existence of the Iranian movie. Turned down the criticism, while the FFI president gave his opinion on the same. The latter said that that he hasn’t seen both the films

Amit Masurkar, the director has defended the comments, said:

“The film has traveled to all international film festivals and has been awarded if it were a copy do you think this would have happened? All these allegations have begun when it landed in India. I don’t even know about the film or the story of Secret Ballot. I have just watched a little bit of it after people starting talking about the similarities in the two films.”

Strengthening his argument, he roped in the general ideas of the gangster movies and others, added, “In gangster films, there is always someone’s death in the family that has led to the story of the gangster and there are honest officers everywhere. As for my film, it is an original story and is rooted in Chattisgarh. I didn’t even know that there was a film like Secret Ballot when we worked on our film.”

Now, to everyone’s surprise, the FFI President, CV Reddy stated his opinion on the movie, he said, “How can I tell you anything as I have not watched both the films?”

An official from the FFI confirmed that there are certain conditions that concrete the movie to be nominated for Oscars. “The release date of the movie should be before 30^th September 2017, there should be English subtitles in the movie and a draft of 50,000 need to be submitted”, these are the rules which are fulfilled by Newton.

“Anyone who meets these criteria can submit their movie. There are no rules about the subject or originality of the film”, concluded the President.

Coming back to the storylines, they both are built on same bases, the protagonist is an Election officer, who is dedicated, modest and punctual and is very stubborn in terms of duty. Both go to the rural areas where there is chaos, then does the job.

Newton started off with a mere Rs 1 crore opening day collections, it tripled by Sunday, making it altogether Rs 2.64 crores.

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