No one can claim copyright over anti-Hindi agitations, Parasakthi producers tell Madras High Court

Parasakthi producers argue against copyright claims over historical anti-Hindi agitations in Madras High Court plagiarism case.

No individual can claim exclusive authorship, copyright, or proprietary rights over historical events, such as the anti-Hindi imposition agitations in Tamil Nadu in the past, the producer of Parasakthi, starring Siva Karthikeyan and others, has told the Madras High Court in response to a case alleging plagiarism.

The submission has been made in a counter affidavit filed before Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, who was seized of a case filed by script writer Varun Rajendran alias K.V. Rajendran who urged the court to prevent the release of Parasakthi on OTT and other platforms without giving due credit to him.

After watching the movie in theatre, the script writer had filed an application to prevent the release of the movie on OTT and other platforms. His counsel M. Purushothaman insisted that the producer give due credit to his client as the “writer and original conceptualiser” of the movie.

He said, the applicant had penned a script titled ‘Chemmozhi’ running to 56 pages and registered it with the South Indian Film Writers Association on January 27, 2010. He alleged that the same script had been used with some changes for the making of Parasakthi.

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On the other hand, advocate Vijayan Subramanian, representing Dawn Pictures Private Limited, vehemently opposed the plea. He contended the film’s director Sudha Kongara was the script writer for Parasakthi and that she had drawn inspiration from the well-documented history of the anti-Hindi agitations.