Plagiarism charges mean accusing someone of stealing someone else’s idea, which unfortunately has become common for directors these days. Ram Charan’s latest hit film Rangasthalam is now facing charges of plagiarism. Just a few months ago same accusations had surfaced where director Trivikram Srinivas was accused and was demanded compensation over these chargers.
So its pretty clear if proven these charges are pretty severe, which does also hamper the reputation of the director if proved.
A complaint was filed against Sukumar by Writer M Gandhi, according to whom director Sukumar has ripped off his idea from his story “ Ukkupaadm” at the Telugu Film Writers Association.
In Sukuamr’s defence, he made a statement saying “I haven’t copied anyone’s idea for Ranganathan movie, but have crafted all the scenes from my imagination” He also said “For the Scene where the hero saves villain only to kill him, I got inspired from 1979 Rajnikanth and Sri Devi starrers‘Dharam Yuddh’. I thought of using that characterisation for a long time and used it here in Rangasthalam.”
Rangasthalam is a fantastic movie which broke a lot of box office records and was labelled Blockbuster as it did a great Rs 210 Crore worldwide. In the film, Chitti babu who is played by Prakash Raj saves the politician until the very last minute and then finally ends up killing him.
It is because of this part the director is being accused of plagiarism charges. However, the explanation given by him does promising, however, can cause a lot of trouble for the director if proven right and the fact that movie has done amazing credits may also shift towards the writer and director may have to pay compensation to the writer.
An accusation like this is ba for any director let alone for a blockbuster movie.
Talks are going on between the writer as well as between the director and as well as Telugu Film Writer Association if not resolved matter could undergo an investigation to find out the real truth of the accusation and does it holds any weight today if so it will not be pleasant for the Director.