Thursday, 2nd June 2016, 07:30 PM IST
‘Housefull 3’, the multi-starter flick which will be released tomorrow, has landed in legal troubles. Reports suggest that a police complaint has been filed against producer Sajid Nadiadwala and directors Sajid-Farhad, along with stakeholders Ashvini Yardi and Narendra Khuswala under section 420, 406, 379 and Copy Right Act.
The complainant, Farooq Barelvi, is a writer and a lyricist. He alleged that contents for ‘Housefull 3’ had been originally written by him and that the makers of the film along with actor Akshay Kumar have cheated him.
He has alleged that the script written by him titled ‘Tigdambaz’ had been registered with the Association of Writers in 2009, and was later narrated to Akshay Kumar, Narendra Khuswala and Ashwini Yardi who were interested in making the story into film.
In his complaint he has claimed that Yardi directed him to sign a contract and register the film under Entertainment houses owned by Narendra Khuswala.
Barelvi states that he was paid a token amount of Rs 51000/-. However, despite commencing work on the script and being paid an addition al Rs. 10000/- there was no progress on it later and his attempts to contact them were unsuccessful.
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