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Mahesh Bhatt's 'Jannat 2' faces plagiarism charges

The spew of accusations regarding plagiarism and copy rights have started again. After the movies Jodi Breakers and The Dirty Picture, the latest film to face these issues is director Mahesh Bhatt's "Jannat 2" starring Emraan Hashmi and Esha Gupta.
 Just one day left for the release of Jannat 2, a mumbai based writer Kapil Chopra has filed a case of plagiarism against the Bhatts claiming that the story of ‘Jannat 2’ was apparently stolen from him.
 According to the reports Kapil claimed that he had registered his story way back in 2007 with the Film Writers Association. He said that since he knew Kunal Deshmukh very well, so he had narrated the script to him once.
 But to his utter shock, Kapil couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw the promos of the film, and he realized that it was his story. Everything was same with characters, plot and the dialogues having strikingly similarity to his script.
 Kapil went to meet Kunal and Mukesh Bhatt for an explanation, but they denied his allegation. Following which, Kapil filed his case against the producers. It is heard that Kapil has demanded an injunction on the release of the film and also wants due credit to him for the film made.
 Well, the truth behind the story is not yet known. Let’s wait and watch the story of both sides and then jump on to some conclusion.

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Mahesh Bhatt preferred ‘Kalyug 2′ title than ‘Blood Money’

Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt has revealed that he wanted his upcoming production “Blood Money” to be titled “Kalyug 2″ but couldn’t do so due to stiff opposition from his associates.

“I wanted to call this film ‘Kalyug 2′ but it was Kunal Khemu and Vishal Mahadkar who opposed me hammer-and-tongs saying we won’t have you do this to our product. You have ‘Raaz 3′, ‘Jism 3′ , ‘Murder 3′, ‘Ashiqui 2′, so we want an original title for this,” the 63-year-old said here in an interview.

“The film remotely resembles the structure of ‘Kalyug’, which had an individual lock horns with the porn industry and this has a young man locking horns with the diamond mafia,” he added.

“Blood Money” talks about a small-town boy who enters the diamond export business and is slowly sucked into the underworld. The film also stars Amrita Puri of “Aisha” fame.

Bhatt also revealed the reason behind shooting the movie Cape Town when originally they wanted to can it in Antwerp, Belgium.

“This picture was going to be shot in Antwerp in Belgium. But people there of Indian origin who, I think, hailed from Gujarat, took exception to this particular story because they thought they would be shown in bad light. They thought the villain is loosely based on Bharat Shah, which is not true. They, in fact, ganged up against us and stopped us from shooting there. That’s why we had to shoot in Cape Town,” said Bhatt. (IANS)