What's common to the flicks like Rockstar, Om Shanti Om, Ra. One and Jannat 2? Well, these types of films was in news on grounds of copyright infringement. The newest one to sign up for that is Rohit Dhawan's Desi Boyz, courtesy the scriptwriter-cum-director Shyam V Devkatte, who had filed a case of copyright infringement last year and have been fighting it over since.
Readers may recall that Shyam, who had apparently registered his story with the Writers' Association in 2008, e-mailed a replica of his story to Eros International. And bother started when the said story was allegedly used for Desi Boyz without his knowledge. That propelled Shyam to file a complaint on the Amboli Police Station under Sections 63 (infringement) and 64 (seizure of infringing copies) of the Copyright Act. Not only that, he also filed an individual complaint with the Andheri Metropolitan Magistrate Court and forwarded the similar to the Zonal DCP. Meanwhile, Eros, on their part managed to get a stay order on it.
The latest development is that Shyam has now decided to take the battle to the following level. What followed was that a bailable warrant was issued against producer Eros International's Krishika Lulla and a summon was sent to director Rohit Dhawan in regards to the same. On his part, Shyam said that the opposite co-producers Jyoti Deshpande and Vijay Ahuja will undergo police enquiry and thon their earlier plea on the High Court was dismissed. He also added that for the last two hearings held at the magistrate court, none of them were present. And because a summon and a pasting summon were issued to Eros yielded no results, an arrest warrant was issued by the Amboli Police Station yesterday evening.
Krishika Lulla, on her behalf evaded commenting anything over this issue as she was travelling. She only said that she is going to inspect the problem when she returns back.
