Makers Of Magadheera Take Raabta To Court

You could say, they had it coming. Ever since the trailer of DineshVijeyan’s reincarnation saga Raabta with Sushant Singh Rajput and Kriti Sanon  scorching up the screen,  hit the internet, there have been countless comparisons to  S S Rajamouli’s Telugu blockbuster Magadheera

In producer-turned –director Dinesh Vijayan’s directorial debutRabtaa, Jim Serbh is cast in  a role suspiciously akin to what RamCharan Teja had played in S S Rajamouli’s 2009 Telugu  film.Serbh’s character jumps from one life to another  to get back the love of  his life played by Kriti Sanon. The idea seemed ripped  from Magadheeraand the Twitter kingdom hasn’t stopped trolling the Raabta team  ever since the trailer came out.

And now the makers of Magadheera, producer Allu Arvind of Geetha Arts has taken the makers of Raabta to court seeking an injunction on the release  of the film on June 9.

The injunction notice clearly states, “This is to inform…that weGeetha Arts the original makers of Magadheera felt…that the Hindi film Raabta is being remade violating the copy rights.Hence we approached the Hyderabad court seeking injunction against the film’s release. The Hyderabad court issued a  notice to the Raabta producers and posted the matter for 1^st June to decide whether Raabta should be permitted to release.”

Talk of Raabta being a Magadheera ripoff had reached producerMadhu Mantena who owns the official remake  of rights ofMagadheera.

Says a source close to Mantena, “Madhu paid a fortune to  acquire the Hindi remake rights of Magadheera. He has been trying to  remakeMagadheera into Hindi for  eight years.It’s a costly film. The Hindi remake is expected to have a budget of Rs 120 crore. At one point he almost succeeded in putting together the project withShahid Kapoor. But the project fell apart. Madhu is still at it and he hopes to get the project going in 2018. There  is no way he will allow  a ripoff to steal his thunder.”