Akshay Kumar’s Ram Setu Copied? Historian Raises Copyrights Claims and Threatens Legal Action
Akshay Kumar’s recent release Ram Setu is going bleak at the box office. The audience's tastes have changed and it seems religion is also not selling in this country. Amidst the film’s disruptive graph, the head of the department of the Ramayan Research Committee in Sri Lanka has alleged in Ram Setu, his research work and life story have been copied without his permission.
Directed by Abhishek Sharma, the film is also being threatened with legal action by Ashok Kumar Kainth who is a Punjabi historian and head of the department of the Ramayan Research Committee in Sri Lanka.
Ashok has alleged that Ram Setu’s main character, Dr Aryan (Akshay Kumar) is a replica of him and his life story. The research work carried out by the character in the film has been taken from his website without his permission. He also alleged that the character was presenting his life story of how he researched the existence of the Ramayan facts in Sri Lanka.
“But things have been fabricated in the movie which should not have been done,” said he adding that it’s also a case here of copyrights. “Movie would have been much better if the filmmakers had come to him to discuss several things because I have done everything on the ground,” Kainth told The Indian Express.
Kainth who worked on a special tourism project to showcase the 50-odd sites connected to the Ramayana added that he wouldn’t have minded if he was taken into confidence.
Talking in detail about this project which concerned Ram Setu’s controversy, Kainth revealed, “The Ramayan trail discovered by them included “Seetha Kotuwa”, the palace where Sita was kept before being moved to the Ashok Vatika, “The Chariot path and Seetha Tear Pond”, “Divurumpola”, the place where Sita underwent “Agni pariksha” and “Ravana caves”, tunnels which are of architectural brilliance and provide easy routes through the hills, the colour of the soil of the ancient battlefield, which is still red today, exotic alpine Himalayan species are found amid the tropical Sri Lankan vegetation, the legacy of Hanuman’s voyage carrying a mountain with life-restoring herbs.”
Regarding the box-office collections of Ram Setu which also features Jacqueline Fernandez, Nushrratt Bharuccha and Satya Dev in pivotal roles, trade expert Taran Adarsh reported on Sunday, “#RamSetu sees some improvement on Day 5 [Sat]… Ideally, should’ve hit double digits or thereabouts… All eyes on Day 6 [Sun], although #INDvSA match will affect biz… Tue 15.25 cr, Wed 11.40 cr, Thu 8.75 cr, Fri 6.05 cr, Sat 7.30 cr. Total: ? 48.75 cr. #Indiabiz.”
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