Hyderabad: Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut is facing 'intellectual theft' allegations after author Ashish Kaul has claimed that the actor 'stole' his story for her upcoming film Manikarnika Returns: The Legend Of Didda.
Kangana's upcoming film Manikarnika Returns: The Legend Of Didda is said to be bigger and mounted on an international scale as the team intends to make a world-class franchise of real life women heroes. Kangana announced the film on January 14 and was called out by Ashish soon after the news went viral. While speaking to a webloid, Ashish has claimed that he had approached Kangana to write the foreword of the Hindi version of his book Didda: The Warrior Queen of Kashmir.
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So, the stars take plagiarism to a brazen new high. If this can happen to a copyright story, national bestseller, sole legitimate & globally praised story by all news media - imagine what fairly new comers must be going thru #DiddaTheWarriorQueenOfKashmir
— Ashish Kaul (@aashishkaul) January 14, 2021 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">So, the stars take plagiarism to a brazen new high. If this can happen to a copyright story, national bestseller, sole legitimate & globally praised story by all news media - imagine what fairly new comers must be going thru #DiddaTheWarriorQueenOfKashmir
— Ashish Kaul (@aashishkaul) January 14, 2021So, the stars take plagiarism to a brazen new high. If this can happen to a copyright story, national bestseller, sole legitimate & globally praised story by all news media - imagine what fairly new comers must be going thru #DiddaTheWarriorQueenOfKashmir
— Ashish Kaul (@aashishkaul) January 14, 2021
He has also claimed that he is the sole copyright owner of the biography, and added, "Kangana has stolen my story. She has such an image in society, who lives with the truth, supports the truth, but here Kangana has stolen my story. I would call it an intellectual theft."
Ashish has also said that Kangana has not responded to his mail written in September 2020 but suddenly she announced the film which he thinks is based on his literary work.
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"Kangana, who is fighting for her rights, is now openly violating the rights of writers like me. I can't understand anything, what can I say to you. Kangana was not expected to commit such a theft," Kaul told the webloid.
Meanwhile, Kangana and producer Kamal Jain will join hands to bring back the franchise, after 2019's Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi. The actor had a meeting with Jain last week and locked their new script. The idea is to bring forgotten woman heroes who have constructed the true identity of Bharat, the sources added.
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हमारा भारतवर्ष साक्षी रहा है झाँसी की रानी जैसे कई वीरांगनाओं की कहानी का. ऐसी ही एक और अनकही वीरगाथा है कश्मीर की एक रानी की, जिसने महमूद गजनवी को एक नहीं, दो बार हराया. ले कर आ रहे हैं @KamalJain_TheKJ और मैं, #ManikarnikaReturns: The Legend of Didda 🙏 pic.twitter.com/sgrqkqilj6
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) January 14, 2021 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">हमारा भारतवर्ष साक्षी रहा है झाँसी की रानी जैसे कई वीरांगनाओं की कहानी का. ऐसी ही एक और अनकही वीरगाथा है कश्मीर की एक रानी की, जिसने महमूद गजनवी को एक नहीं, दो बार हराया. ले कर आ रहे हैं @KamalJain_TheKJ और मैं, #ManikarnikaReturns: The Legend of Didda 🙏 pic.twitter.com/sgrqkqilj6
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) January 14, 2021हमारा भारतवर्ष साक्षी रहा है झाँसी की रानी जैसे कई वीरांगनाओं की कहानी का. ऐसी ही एक और अनकही वीरगाथा है कश्मीर की एक रानी की, जिसने महमूद गजनवी को एक नहीं, दो बार हराया. ले कर आ रहे हैं @KamalJain_TheKJ और मैं, #ManikarnikaReturns: The Legend of Didda 🙏 pic.twitter.com/sgrqkqilj6
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) January 14, 2021
Didda was Queen of Kashmir who defeated Mehmood Ghaznavi twice in battle. Her one leg was polio-stricken but she was one of the greatest warriors.
