Mumbai: Ashish Kaul, creator of the ebook “Didda: The Warrior Queen Of Kashmir”, who has filed an FIR against actress Kangana Ranaut for asserting the movie “Manikarnika Returns: The Legend Of Didda” with out his approval, says the narrative of the queen being a nationalist who nurtured an undivided India has been written solely by him.
Ashish Kaul filed his First Information Report at Khar station for the violation of the Copyright Act. His utility has been positioned beneath Section 156(3) of CrPC, 197. The case has been filed against Kangana Ranaut, her sister Rangoli Chandel, Kamal Kumar Jain and Manikarnika Films Private Limited on Friday.
Talking completely to IANS, Kaul stated: “Copyright Act protects exclusivity. This is a non-bailable offence, which amounts to three years of jail term as recent High Court order. Besides my book, there is only one book in the world that mentions Didda. That 3,000-page book, ‘Rajataringi’, only has two pages on Didda where they talk about her sexual life, and how she killed her son and infant grandsons. The narrative of her being a nationalist who nurtured undivided India has been written by only me. “
On how his work reached Kangana, the creator stated: “I was in talks with various production houses for my book to be made into a film, which I could direct. The potential financer and distributor Mr Uttam Maheshwari, who had come on board, sent my docket to Kangana. It had my script, characterisation, possible cast — everything.”
“For the last three years, all I have done is dream about this film and worked towards it. Now I am in major loss because I was already in talks with production houses,” Kaul added.
He revealed that he had despatched a mail to Kangana informing her of the copyright violation however was met with a holding response that they’d reply to his mail.
When contacted, Kangana Ranaut’s advocate Rizwan Siddiquee stated: “I shall obtain a copy of the entire proceedings from the court and then give a detailed statement. At this juncture I cannot comment without perusing the complaint in detail.”
Kaul’s FIR was filed for infringement of the copyright and numerous different sections together with 420, which quantities to prison breach of belief, dishonest, dishonest with the information that wrongful loss could guarantee to the particular person whose curiosity the offender is certain to guard, as properly as dishonest and dishonestly inducing supply of property, punishable beneath Sections 406, 415, 418, 34, 120 B and 420 of the Indian Penal Code, learn with Section 51, 63, 63A and different provision of The Copyright Act, 1957 and Section 65 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
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