Ajay Devgn, Priyamani and Gajraj Rao starrer Maidaan is scheduled to release tomorrow (11 April 2024) but even before its release, it has found itself in legal trouble as a writer from Karnataka has filed a case and claimed plagiarism. In response to the plea, the principal district and Session court in Mysore has issued a stay on the release of the movie.
The name of the writer is Anil Kumar, he is from Mysore and he has claimed that he has written a story based on the incident of expulsion of the Indian football team from the FIFA World Cup in 1950 and he got it registered with the Screen writers Association in Bombay under the title Paadakanduka and he also wrote about it on LinkedIn.
Anil Kumar also claimed that assistant director of Maidaan, Sukhdas Suryavanshi called him to Mumbai in 2019, they both met and Sukhdas promised him to arrange a meeting with Aamir Khan for making a movie but that didn’t happen.
Anil stated in an interview, “In 2010, I started writing the story and in 2018 I posted a poster about this, and I got in contact with Ad director Sukhdas Suryavanshi through my LinkedIn post. He called me to Bombay and asked me to get the script. I have the whole chat history. He told me that he’d make me meet Amir Khan but I couldn’t meet him for certain reasons. I gave him the story and registered the same with the Screen writers Association.”
He further said, “Recently, I heard that a movie named Maidaan is getting released, I was surprised because even I have the same story. When I looked at the teaser and their statements, I got to know that it was my story. They have twisted the main story itself and made this movie. I named the story Paadakanduka for three Khans.”
Let’s see how the team of Maidaan reacts now.
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