No individual can claim exclusive authorship, copyright, or proprietary rights over historical events, such as the anti-Hindi imposition agitations in Tamil Nadu in the past, the producer of Parasakthi, starring Siva Karthikeyan and others, has told the Madras High Court in response to a case alleging plagiarism.
The submission has been made in a counter affidavit filed before Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, who was seized of a case filed by script writer Varun Rajendran alias K.V. Rajendran who urged the court to prevent the release of Parasakthi on OTT and other platforms without giving due credit to him.
Parasakthi: The tussle between the reel and the real
After watching the movie in theatre, the script writer had filed an application to prevent the release of the movie on OTT and other platforms. His counsel M. Purushothaman insisted that the producer give due credit to his client as the “writer and original conceptualiser” of the movie.
He said, the applicant had penned a script titled ‘Chemmozhi’ running to 56 pages and registered it with the South Indian Film Writers Association on January 27, 2010. He alleged that the same script had been used with some changes for the making of Parasakthi.
