Pooja Bhatt Lost The Legal Battle For The Title Of 'Thank You'

Pooja Bhatt had filed a case against UTV and co-producer Hari Om Productions over using the title 'Thank You' for the latest romantic comedy. She claimed that she had registered the title with the Association of Motion Picture and TV Programming Producers (AMPTPP).

However, the Mumbai High Court ruled on April 6th in favor of UTV and said that there is no copyright on a mere title.

Although, UTV won the case but they clarified that the issue was simply a result of miscommunication between Indian Motion Picture Producers Association (IMPAA) and Film Makers Combine (FMC). UTV had registered the name with IMPAA in 2008 but Pooja still filed a case in the high court.

The CEO of UTV Motion Pictures, Siddharth Roy Kapoor said that we registered the title of 'Thank You' through a proper channel and it legitimately belonged to them. However, the industry should focus on having a single window for title clearances to avoid such incidents in the future.

With the case being setttled, the cast, director and producers are now focused at the marketing events and box office because the movie is to be released on this weekend.

Dabangg 2 Controversy Continues

Dabangg has had its share of success but it seems that Dabangg 2 is only surrounded by tonnes of controversies. The major one being the rift between the Khans and Abhinav Singh Kashyap.

Now Arbaaz Khan is directing Dabangg 2 as we all know but the new issue is the copyright of the film's story. The question is whether Arbaaz Khan has the rights or Abhinav Kashyap holds the rights?

An industry source said that for the original movie Dabangg, Abhinav had presented the idea to the Khans. Salman and Arbaaz gave the go ahead to the idea and it was decided to make it into a film. For Dabangg 2 also, Abhinav and the Khans had creative conversations. Though the basic idea was locked, the final script was not locked. This certainly means that this could lead to a copyrights issues since Abhinav is out of the picture and Arbaaz is controlling everything himself.

Arbaaz Khan said, "Dabangg has come and gone and for that Abhinav had got due credit both as a director as well as the co-writer. Now Dabangg 2 is an altogether new and a different film,"

On the copyrights issue he further said, "Let me set the record straight once for and all here. Story of Dabangg is with us and Abhinav doesn't have any rights with him. In any case, the original writer of Dabangg was Dilip Shukla while Abhinav only made contribution to the film's screenplay. Now with Dabangg 2 starting afresh, there isn't anyone who can come and stake any claim whatsoever."

Oh my God, this is such a turn off. The Khans and Abhinav had issues ever since they thought of making a sequel. Salman had a fight with Abhinav too. Then he left the movie completely. Already the thought of Sonakshi Sinha being a part of the movie is so irritating and the way these people are going is quite messed up. I getting bored of this drama.