MrMumbai: Days after director Ali Abbas Zafar announced a remake of the Bollywood sci-fi film Mr. India through a trilogy, director of the original movie Shekhar Kapur on Saturday said that he was not given creative rights for the remake of the film.
The director of the 1987 sci-fi flick, which featured Anil Kapoor as the lead actor, took to Twitter to express his concern about directors and their creative rights.
"We sit with writers from day one but are not the writer. 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?" Kapur tweeted.
Along with the tweet, Kapur added a hashtag of Mr. India to make it clear that his tweet indicated the remake of the classic film.
Alternatively in another tweet, a fellow director Kunal Kohli suggested Kapur go legal for the rights of Mr India to which Kapur replied, "Yes. It's time to test this legally .. let's do it .."
This comes hours after actor Anil Kapoor's daughter and actor Sonam Kapoor took to social media to hit out at Sultan director Ali Abbas Zafar for announcing the remake of Mr. India without the consultation of her father and director Shekhar Kapur.