Shekhar Kapur on Mr India 2: It's time to have a serious legal discussion

The reboot of Mr. India has been one of the hot topics in Bollywood lately. Ever since a leading daily broke the news of Ali Abbas Zafar planning to make Mr. India 2, there has been a lot of discussion about not asking for the rights or informing about the film before taking up a project which is a cult classic now. Sonam Kapoor had criticised the same and called it quite "disrespectful". Shekhar Kapur, who had directed the 1987's classic, has joined the same.

The director is very much upset that no one even bothered to consult him before announcing the project. Talking about the same, director Shekhar Kapur told Mid-Day, "Where is the director's ownership on the material he has created? It [the reboot] is based on what I have created. Now, I am in touch with lawyers all over the world to [tackle] the issue. It's about creating a new understanding of the creative authorship of the principal director of a film. [The model] is [followed] in many nations of the world, including Australia, and the US. As the director, I am the prime author of the movie. I must have rights to the future remake of the film created by me. This calls for a change in the constitutional copyright laws. This is not about Mr. India anymore."

The director is well aware that in India producers own the rights of the film, he added, "The poster reads Surinder Kapoor's Mr. India produced by Boney Kapoor. His father was the original producer." The director further informed that he had reached out to Boney Kapoor when the reboot was announced. "[When I questioned him], he said nothing is set in stone. Anil was equally disturbed that he didn't know about it," Kapur told Mid-Day.

"It's time to have a serious legal discussion here to reinterpret the copyright act so that it accords authorship of a film to the principal director. This is not directed at Boney, or the current director, or Zee Studios. It is directed at the act itself," Shekhar signed off, stating his next course of action.

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