Bombay High Court dismisses copyright claim | Indian Movie News
The Bombay High Court has thrown out a copyright infringement plea against Balaji Telefilms over its 2023 comedy Dream Girl 2, ruling that the movie’s storyline is totally different from the applicant’s work and that the claim of breach of confidence was ‘far-fetched’.
The case was filed by author Ashim Kumar Bagchi, who claimed the Ayushmann Khurrana-starrer was based on his script initially titled Kal Kisne Dekha and later re-registered as The Show Must Go On. Bagchi alleged that his story — a gender-swap comedy about a man impersonating a girl and navigating hilarious conditions whenever his real id was at risk — had been shared in confidence with one of the movie’s credited writers years in the past. He argued that parts of his work had been used without permission.
However, the court noticed that what Bagchi was looking for amounted to a monopoly over generic concepts and common comedic tropes — such as mistaken id and disguise — that can’t be protected under copyright law. These parts, the court said, had been “stock” and “unoriginal” in nature and therefore not eligible for safety. Finding no substantive similarity between the 2 works, the judges dismissed the case and ordered Bagchi to pay Rs 1 lakh each in prices to Balaji Telefilms and another defendant.
Directed by Raaj Shaandilyaa, Dream Girl 2 is the sequel to the 2019 blockbuster Dream Girl. The movie sees Ayushmann Khurrana reprising his function as Karam, who once again takes on the feminine persona of ‘Pooja’, main to a sequence of comedic chaos and romantic misunderstandings. Featuring Ananya Panday as the feminine lead alongside Paresh Rawal, Vijay Raaz, and Rajpal Yadav, the movie was a industrial success, cementing its place as one of Bollywood’s most well-liked comedy franchises. The movie was a non secular successor to the 2019 comedy also that includes Ayushmann.
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