RGV is in a dilemma

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The title of his new movie has been jinxed right from the start. Varma ran into copyright issues when he first decided to call it Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay.
Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma is in a dilemma right now. The title of his new movie has been jinxed right from the start. Varma ran into copyright issues when he first decided to call it Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay. The word ‘Sholay’ was what was causing the problem. So the director settled on Ram Gopal Varma Ka Gabbar, next. Apparently , even that ran into trouble as ‘Gabbar’ too was registered under the Copyright Act by the original makers of Sholay.
There is more bad news for Varma . A source said he may have to change the name of the main character in his movie to something like Ajgar Singh as the producers of Sholay have taken objections to the same. “It won’t be a surprise if the director’s film is now called Ram Gopal Varma Ka Ajgar,” says the source.
“Although Sholay is considered to be a generic word, and there have been several films made in the past like Ramgarh Ke Sholay and Garhwali Sholay, Ramu has faced copyright trouble over the word. On the other hand, Ekta Kapoor is making a film title Gabbar Singh in Bhojpuri ,” adds the source. Varma has already changed the name of two important characters in his movie, Basanti and Thakur to Ghungroo and Narsimhan respectively. While the original Sholay had Basanti as the tangewali, Varma’s Ghungroo is an autowali.
Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay had Gabbar chopping off both the hands of Thakur Baldev Singh; Varma’s film has Narsimhan (played by Mohanlal) losing both his wrists. Varma, meanwhile, maintains that his is a tribute to Sholay and not a copy of the movie.


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