Author of Didda’s biography calls Kangana Ranaut’s film ‘violation of copyright laws of the country that she swears by’

Hours after Kangana Ranaut introduced her subsequent, Manikarnika Returns: The Legend of Didda, the copyright proprietor of the biography on the warrior queen of Kashmir, has accused her of “blatantly violating his sole rights”.

Ashish Kaul, writer of Didda – Kashmir Ki Yodha Rani, has claimed that he has the unique copyrights to the story of Didda and had approached the actor to write down a foreword for the Hindi model of the guide in September final 12 months however by no means obtained a reply from her or her then supervisor, Rangoli Chandel. He nonetheless, nonetheless believes that the actor might have been “misguided” to make a movie on the story he had shared along with her, alongside along with his request.

Ashish advised Occasions of India in an interview, “Is it plausible by any stretch of creativeness {that a} story and a guide is being usurped by a famend actor-turned-social activist? She might even flip round and declare that Didda is a historic determine, which is true besides the truth that no historian on the planet, other than Kalhan who wrote simply two pages on her, and me, who has spent six years on analysis and documentation, who’ve data on her. I’m deeply aghast that an individual as conscious, educated, and apparently a nationalist and a voice for causes, has chosen to belittle her picture so.

He additional added, “She has blatantly violated my sole rights; it’s unlawful and an absolute violation of the IPR and copyright legal guidelines of the identical nation that she swears by. I discover it so brazen and hideous and I’m nonetheless inclined to imagine that Kangana has been misguided.”

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Manikarnika Returns: The Legend of Didda would be the sequel to Kangana’s 2019 movie Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi. Forward of the movie’s second anniversary later this month, the actor introduced the movie on Thursday.

She tweeted together with an image of her and filmmaker Kamal Jain, “Humara bharatvarsh sakshi raha hai Jhansi ki rani jaise kai veeranganao ki kahaani ka. Aisi hello ek aur ankahee veergatha hai Kashmir ki ek rani ki, jisne Mahmud Ghaznavi ko ek nahi, do baar haraya (India has seen a number of bravehearts just like the queen of Jhansi. One other such untold story of heroism is of a queen from Kashmir, who defeated Mahmud of Ghazni not as soon as however twice in battle).”