The upcoming Bhatt film Jannat 2 starring Emraan Hashmi and Esha Gupta has run into legal trouble, with a Mumbai based writer Kapil Chopra filing a case of plagiarism against the filmmakers. The complaint filed states that the Bhatts apparently stole his story to make their forthcoming film Jannat 2.
The hearing of the case happened last evening where Kapil claimed that he had registered his story with the Film Writers Association in 2007. As he knew director, Kunal Deshmukh rather well he had narrated the script to him and had also left a bound copy at Bhatts office.
However, when Kapil saw the promos of the film, he realized that it was his story, with characters, plot and the dialogues that were strikingly very similar to his script. Post this realization Kapil met Kunal and Mukesh Bhatt but they denied his allegation. Because the denial, Kapil filed his case against the producers.
The law firm Krishnamurthy and Co is representing Kapil, and feature demanded an injunction at the release of the film and feature also demanded due credit for him.
