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Dasavartham plagiarism claim
Thursday,
September
14,
2006
Chennai
(UNI):
Controversy
stalked
superstar
Kamal
Hassan
everytime
he
embarked
on
a
new
venture.
The
latest
confronting
him
is
the
charge
of
plagiarism
of
the
story
line
of
his
new
film
Dasavatharam,
in
which
he
is
playing
as
many
as
ten
roles.
However,
when
contacted,
Kamal
Hassan
said
he
was
least
worried
about
the
charge.
''I
have
better
things
to
do.
I
don't
want
to
speak
on
it'',
the
actor
retorted.
In
the
latest
controversy
a
person
approached
the
police
and
lodged
a
complaint
that
the
script
of
Kamal
Hassan's
Dasavatharam
(''Ten
incarnations''),
is
based
on
a
story
written
by
him
and
he
submitted
it
to
the
actor
some
time
ago.
The
'claimer',
who
has
warned
of
legal
action
against
the
actor,
also
claimed
that
Kamal
accepted
to
consider
the
story
for
a
possible
film
and
make
him
the
assistant
director,
if
the
project
fructifies.
But,
he
never
heard
anything
from
the
actor.
However, jumping to Kamal's defence, a Tamil film industry source said, ''Such wild charges need to be ignored. Some person or the other has been doing it with an intention of drawing financial gains out of it.'' Kamal's present pedicament is reminiscent of a similar charge which a film of thespian late Sivaji Ganesan Divamagan (''Divine Child'') faced in 1969. The film which also entered for Oscars in the foreign film category, survived a legal battle and turned out to be a box office hit. Sivaji Ganesan's portrayal of father and two sons won great acclaim for the actor. Kamal had first faced trouble over the title of his own directorial venture Virumandi, again over the title Vasool Raja MBBS, the remake of Munnabhai MBBS, and two years ago, a leading political party objected to the English title MumbaiXpress.
