Shekhar Kapoor to sue the makers of ‘Mr. India’ remake
After director Ali Baas Zafar announced to remake the film ‘Mr. India’; people associated with the classic movie are quite upset regarding acquiring rights to remake a film. Anil Kapoor's daughter, Sonam Kapoor slammed the makers for not informing Anil Kapoor or Shekhar Kapur about the remake. And now, director Shekhar Kapur expressed his dismay over the issue on his twitter account. Replying to a tweet by filmmaker Kunal Kohli, he signalled towards taking the legal option.
Director Kunal Kohli on Saturday took to Twitter and wrote: "Javed Akhtar won a hard-fought battle for the rights of lyricists and writers. Its time we did the same?" Responding to Kohli's tweet, Shekhar tweeted, "Yes. It's time to test this legally... Let's do it."
Not only this, Shekhar took to social media and posted late actor Amrish Puri's still from ‘Mr India’, in which he played the popular villain Mogambo. Reacting on how Mogambo would have reacted to the news of the film's remake if he was alive, Shekhar tweeted,
Shekhar also found it disrespectful for the new makers for not given him the ‘creative rights’ for the remake.
"We sit with writers from day one but are not the writers. Help actors hone performances but are not actors. Develop and create visual language of film. Slave hours over editing consoles. Directors lead and inspire every aspect of a film and have no creative rights? He added.
We agree!
