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The ace filmmaker kicked up a storm when he changed the title of his upcoming erotic film from Saavitri to Sridevi
The war of words between Ram Gopal Varma and producer Boney Kapoor is far from over. After finding out that the Satya director has announced a voyeuristic film about a young boy’s crush on an older woman, titled Sridevi, an enraged Boney Kapoor filed a legal notice against RGV for defaming his wife, actress Sridevi, by associating her name to a sleaze film.
Speaking to a daily newspaper, Boney said,” Ramu may be well within his rights to do the film, but he is contradicting himself. On one hand, he says that he is an ardent fan of my wife and on the other, he has used her name to promote sleaze. I will go to any lengths to protect my family.”
While Boney Kapoor is hell bent to force RGV to change the title of his film, the Bhoot filmmaker seems to be in no mood to give to the legal pressures. In a long open letter, Ramu had mentioned,”The film is about a teenager’s infatuation towards a 25 year old woman…a subject matter like this was earlier dealt with, in such films as Malena, Cinema paradiso, Summer of 42 ,Rajkapoor’s Mera Naam joker etc to name just a few…But coming to the film “Sridevi” neither is the woman playing the title role in my film is an actress nor the boy is a director..Also there’s a huge age gap between the boy and woman in the film “Sridevi ” which is not the case with me and the real Sridevi.”
” I am going ahead with the title “Sridevi” because I am well within my legal and moral rights to use it..legal because a name cannot be copyrighted and also like I said the film has nothing to do with the real Sridevi to the extent that the protagonist is not even an actress…moral because I know in my heart that I will never do anything to degrade or demean Sridevi and the final outcome of the film will prove that”, said the stubborn filmmaker, paying no heed to Boney Kapoor’s legal notice.
We wonder if Boney Kapoor’s legal notice is serving as a great platform for RGV to promote his film. Is it right on RGV’s part to use English Vinglish actress’ name for his film title? Let us know your thoughts on this raging battle between Ramu and Boney.
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