After actor Manoj Kumar’s legal action against Om Shanti Om (OSO), now a script writer has dragged Shah Rukh Khan, director Farah Khan and others to court for allegedly copying his script.
Ajay Monga, who has written the scripts of films like Corporate and the forthcoming Fashion, has filed a suit in Bombay High Court, alleging that OSO is a copy of a script he wrote. Alleging copyright infringement, Monga’s suit states that he had wanted Shah Rukh to play the lead role in the film, and gave a copy of the script to his company — Red Chillies Entertainment — in December 2005, but got no response.
Monga’s action may seem belated given that OSO was released in November.
However, he has stated that he filed complaint with the Script Writers’ Association in December itself. He decided to file a suit in the HC on August 2 after learning that the film is slated for a worldwide television release on August 10.
On Wednesday, Monga’s lawyer, Virendra Tulzapurkar, sought an ad-interim relief from the HC to stop the telecast of the film on Sony Television on August 10. He said that his client had filed his objections with Multi Screen Media (formerly SET India), which had acquired satellite telecast rights of OSO. “When my client realised that in spite of his objection, they are going ahead with the television release, he approached the HC.” He also pointed out that the satellite release of the film amounted to a fresh act of piracy and infringement of his client’s copyright.
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