Filmmaker Shankar and producer Aascar Ravichandran are at loggerheads over the Hindi remake rights of the Tamil movie Anniyan. A day after producer Ravichandran threatened to take the authorized course if Shankar goes forward with the plan to remake Anniyan in Hindi, the filmmaker has responded in a press release that he solely owns the precise to the movie’s script and story.
On Thursday night, Shankar launched a press release wherein he responded to allegations made by producer Ravichandran over Hindi remake of his movie Anniyan.
In a press release, Shankar wrote: “I’m shocked to obtain your mail dated 14.04.2021 stating that you just personal the storyline of the film Anniyan. On this context, I submit that the film was launched within the yr 2005 and everybody related to the film was conscious that the script and storyline belong solely to me and actually, the film was launched with the tag: Story, Screenplay and Route by Shankar. I’ve not assigned in writing any script or screenplay to any individual, and proceed to retain the precise to take advantage of the script in any method I deem match. Because the admitted creator of the literary work, my rights can’t be interfered with beneath any circumstances.”
Shankar went on to make clear that late author Sujatha was solely concerned in writing the dialogues of the movie and had nothing to do with the story.
“Sujatha was not concerned within the script, screenplay or characterization in any method, and there’s no scope past his engagement as a dialogue author. Provided that the script vests with me, I’m completely entitled to take advantage of the identical in any method I deem match. In actual fact, you/your entity doesn’t have the precise to remake or make any spinoff rights for Anniyan, because the mentioned rights haven’t been granted to you in writing. Within the absence of any project in writing from me, there could be no foundation in any respect to even assert that the storyline vests with you.”
Shankar identified that Ravichandran gained considerably from the success of Anniyan, which had launched in 2005 and starred Vikram, Sada and Prakash Raj within the lead roles.
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“You’re needlessly attempting to unjustly enrich your self even in my future endeavours which don’t have any correlation to you. Unnecessary to state, I can solely hope good sense will prevail upon you after this clarification and you’ll cease agitating such baseless claims. This reply is issued with out prejudice, and to make clear the precise scenario of me as a director and author being topic to such avaricious and unlawful claims to needlessly try to jeopardise my future initiatives,” Shankar added.
On Wednesday, Shankar was kicked about teaming up with Ranveer Singh. He mentioned in a tweet that solely he may play the lead position within the film.