Days after the Delhi High Court rejected a petition against Aamir Khan's PK, a novelist has moved a plea accusing the movie's producers and directors of plagiarising certain portions from his Hindi book Farishta published in 2013.
Kapil Isapuri has moved the court alleging that Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Raj Kumar Hirani, who directed the film, their respective production companies as well as scriptwriter Abhijat Joshi have "stolen the characters, expression of ideas, scenes (sequences) from the novel".
He has sought punitive damages of Rs 1 crore from the makers along with credit for his work. In his plea filed through advocate Jyotika Kalra, Kapil has claimed that in his novel he "has criticised blind following of so-called godmen" as well as that "profession of religion is not natural but is man-made and artificial" and "in a group of people nobody can identify their respective religion".
He has also claimed that various other issues raised in the movie have been "copied" from his book.
"The novel has many more such situations which have been very cleverly copied by the defendants in the film by making minor changes and insignificant variations," the petition said.
"I am sorry that I watched
PK pretty late since its release on December 19. I watched the film on January 1 and was completely taken aback when I saw that many scenes in the film were inspired from my latest novel
Farishta," Kapil told a press conference.
PK, starring Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sanjay Dutt and Sushant Singh Rajput in pivotal roles, is a satire on godmen. It narrates the story of an alien (Aamir) who comes to Earth on a research mission, befriends a television journalist Jagat (played by Anushka) and questions religious dogmas and superstitions.