The Hindu : New Delhi News : Remake of Sholay runs into rough weather

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Friday, Oct 20, 2006
ePaper

New Delhi

New Delhi

Remake of Sholay runs into rough weather

NEW DELHI: Film maker Ram Gopal Varma's bid to make a remake of the 1970s blockbuster ``Sholay'' has run into rough weather with the Delhi High Court restraining its release. The roadblocks for the release of the film in which superstar Amitabh Bachchan has assumed the roll of ``Gabbar Singh'' came recently on a lawsuit filed by the grandson of G P Sippy, who had produced Sholay.

The suit filed by Sippy Films Pvt Ltd and Sholay Media and Entertainment Pvt Ltd, owned by Sascha Sippy and Shan Uttam Singh had sought stay on the release of Varma's film maintaining the use of the name Sholay by any other entity amounts to infringement of trade mark and copyright. In the suit filed through the law firm Anand and Anand, they contended that they also have copyright on the use of character ``Gabbar Singh'' which was played by late Amjad Khan in Sholay. Sascha Sippy, director of the Sippy Films, claimed that the late G P Sippy's son Ajit Sippy who reportedly sold the copyrights to Varma, had no such rights himself to transfer the same to others. -PTI

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

New Delhi

News Update

Stories in this Section