Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar starrer movie Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is all set to release on August 11th, 2017. The trailer was released last month and it received mixed responses from the viewers. But now the movie is in soup before its release. Documentary filmmaker Praveen Vyas accused the makers of the movie of stealing some of the scenes from his short film ‘Manini’.
Vyas has given legal notice to Bollywood film’s production and distribution company, Viacom 18 Motion Pictures. To a leading daily, he said, “Manini follows the female protagonist as she protests against lack of a toilet in her marital home on the first night of her marriage after female relatives wake her up before sunrise to tend to nature’s call in an open field. The scenes in Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’s trailer shows the same interaction between characters.’’
But the producer of the movie, Shital Bhatia said, “These allegations are baseless and border on harassment. The script of our film has been registered under our writers’ names, Siddharth and Garima, with the authorised industry association since 2013. Furthermore, the film has been in the public domain through various news stories since July 2015. We firmly deny all the claims made by this gentleman who is obviously misled. It is sad that genuine producers have become soft targets for this kind of nuisance.”
Talking about Manini, it won the third best film at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa last year.
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