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French Director Accuses T- Series Banner Film ‘Saaho’ of Plagiarism

New Delhi (Sputnik): Amid reports of the Tollywood film “Saaho” emerging as the second-highest film in worldwide box office collection, beating “Fast and Furious: Hobbs & Shaw”, French director Jerome Salle has slammed the film’s maker for allegedly copying his movie “Largo Winch”.
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The film, produced under T-Series' banner, starring Bollywood actress Sharaddha Kapoor and Telugu film actor Prabhas, has been accused of plagiarism.

Jerome came to know about the Indian film's scenes resembling his 2008 action film after several Twitter users tagged him, pointing out the resemblance to his directed “Largo Winch”, which apparently didn’t do well at the box-office.

The French director earlier made similar accusations of plagiarism against director Pawan Kalyan's Telugu-language film “Agnyaathavaasi”. He has now claimed that his work has been stolen by the makers of “Saaho”, while sarcastically advising in a tweet to “at least do it properly”.

However, the makers of "Saaho" are yet to comment on the allegations.

Earlier in 2018, Jerome threatened T-Series with legal action for copying his film.

The film Saaho seems to have attracted unsolicited attention in the past as well for plagiarism.

Indo-Canadian actress Lisa Ray earlier had accused the makers of copying the poster of the film’s song “Baby Won't You Tell Me”. She has stated in an Instagram post that the theft of creative work by big-budget films is totally unacceptable.

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