I have not sued Prakash Jha says Anurag Kashyap

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has tweeted that he has not sued Prakash Jha over ‘Jai Gangaajal’ rights. Some days back the co-producer of Priyanka Chopra starrer ‘Jai Gangaajal‘ had filed a police complaint against director Prakash Jha and his production company, alleging fraud and cheating. Now there are rumours that Phantom Films have served a notice to the filmmaker alleging that he had made the sequel to the hit flick without having the rights.

Reacting to these rumours Kashyap tweeted,

Well I have not sued Prakash Jha so stop creating a headline to get your clicks..

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) August 16, 2016

Phantom Films is a production house set up by Vikas Bahl, Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane and Madhu Mantena. They had claimed that they owned the Intellectual Property Rights of the original film and also the rights to make a sequel or any adaptation based on Jha’s ‘Gangaajal’ that had starred Bollywood’s Singham Ajay Devgn in a pivotal role.

So they sued Jha on making the sequel of the film that had Priyanka Chopra in the leading role. The notice stated that as the film is made already and intellectual property rights are violated, Jha should provide Rs 1 crore to Phantom film as compensation.

Gangaajal’s sequel that was titled ‘Jai Gangaajal’ starred Priyanka Chopra as a senior police officer, who was assigned to an extremely corrupt town. How she goes around to tackle corruption there forms the rest of the story.

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