The High Court on Wednesday dismissed the petition of filmmaker Rakesh Roshan, in which a plagiarized case of Dehradun resident was requested to dismiss the FIR lodged against him. The Supreme Court rejected the petition and cleared the way for the hearing of the case.

Issue

Filed on May 21 last year against Roshan in the Dalanwala police station in Dehradun, alleged that the film producer Roop Narayan Sonkar, resident of Dehradun, in parts of his film ‘Krrish 3’.

Over view of the case

  • Sonak’s lawyer HC Bisht said, “Now we will prepare for the start of ‘human’ and ‘janwara’ (animal) and it will be named ‘Manwar’.
  • He accused Roshan of adopting this concept and using this word in the 2013 film “Krrish 3”, where the opponents played by actor Vivek Oberoi and Kangana Ranaut are called ‘Manvar’.
  • Sonkar said that Roshan used his story without getting his permission or license under the Copyright Act. Tested.
  • The police have already filed a case in the lower court of Dehradun earlier this month. “

In complaint

Sonkar had alleged that in 2010, he had published a novel ‘Surdan’ in which he envisioned a creature in the combination of ‘human’ and ‘janwara’ (animals) and named him ‘Manwar’. He accused Roshan of adopting this concept and using this word in the 2013 film “Krrish 3”, where the opponents played by actor Vivek Oberoi and Kangana Ranaut are called ‘Manvar’.

Conclusion

Sonkar said that Roshan used his story without getting his permission or license under the Copyright Act.