Yesterday, a local court in Jaipur heard the part of the argument in the case of violation of the Copyright Act by makers of ‘Toilet Ek Prem Katha‘. A Jaipur based filmmaker Praatik Sharma has filed a case against Plan C Studios and Viacom18 for lifting the punchline and the subject from his film “Gutrun Gutar Gun”.
G.D. Bansal (Praatik’s lawyer) said, “Today the arguments remained inconclusive in Jaipur Metropolitan Court and will continue tomorrow too.” On this S.S. Hora, counsel of Viacom18, said, “We argued in the court that an idea or a concept cannot fall under Copyright Act and there is no violation of the act. These types of things are already in public domain and no relief should be given to the complainant.”
On July 26, Jaipur Metropolitan Court asked the makers of the movie “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha” to file a reply or to enter into arguments in the case of copyright violation on July 31. Earlier, on July 22, the court had issued a notice, but there was a strike by the clerical staff was going on, the court gave the respondents July 26 as a new date for filing their reply.
“Toilet Ek Prem Katha“, which is directed by Shree Narayan Singh co-produced by Akshay Kumar and Neeraj Pandey, the film will star Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar in the lead roles, with Anupam Kher, and Sana Khan in supporting roles.