Lawsuit against Salman in HC seeks stay on screening of 'Veer'

A lawsuit was filed today by an author in the Delhi high court against Hindi film star Salman Khan and director Anil Sharma seeking to stay the screening of the film Veer.

Pavan Choudary's suit alleged that the film had illegally used some concepts from his book.

Choudary has sought damages of Rs20 lakh from the producer and the director of the film for alleged violation of his copyright for making illegal gains by lifting a portion from his book Trilogy of Wisdom.

"The producer, the director, and the story writer are well aware of his extraordinary and remarkable reputation and are also well aware that use of idea and concept that India should not be a 'Sone Ki Chidiya but BAAZ' in the film are violative of intellectual property rights," the petition, filed through advocates CS Yadav and Pandey Rajiv Rajhans, said.

Choudary submitted in his petition that he had earlier sent a legal notice to the film's makers not to use his concept, but they went ahead with the release.

"The defendants threaten and intend to continue the aforesaid wrongful acts and thereby to infringe his copyrights and they would continue to do so unless restrained by this court," the petition said.