Harry Potter fails to prevent the release of "Hari Puttar"

New Delhi, 22 September 2008. - An Indian court has cleared the premiere of the film "Hari Puttar" to dismiss a Warner Bros asking suspend the launch, noting that the name was too close to a known child magician.
The judges accepted the argument of the Indian producer, according to which the film is based on an original script and the title means, both in Hindi and Punjabi, the son of God, Indian agencies reported.
"Our film is different, has nothing to do with any other. The name depends only on the character, called Hari. And Puttar means son in Punjabi, "he said Jenette Efe Banis, Secretary of the producer Mirchi Movies.
The film tells the story of young Dhoonda Hari Prasad, a Punjabi than 10 years with his family emigrated to the United Kingdom, after his father received a commission from the Indian Army to work on a secret project.
The father, Professor Dhoonda, maintains the project saved at home, in a confidential chip immediately attracts the attention of an evil gangster and his henchmen.
In a twist reminiscent of another Hollywood blockbuster ("Home Alone", 1990), the family goes on vacation but leave the small house Hari Puttar, who display their courage every time the thieves try to take over the chip Dhoonda teacher.
"It talks about the freedom of a child when left alone at home with his cousin, and the funny situations that occur when two thieves try to enter the house," he told IANS agency producer, Munish Purii.
To shore up the originality of "Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors," the producers emphasize that in the film, as opposed to "Home Alone", there are songs and an animated boy friend who helps him overcome the loneliness.
The "originality" of Hari failed to convince Warner Bros., which owns the rights to the franchise, "Harry Potter", who in August took the case to court to request the suspension of the release of the tape provided the last 19 - at least under its current title.
But today, Judge Reva Khetrapal, the Delhi High Court decided that there is "nothing in common" between the names Hari Puttar and Harry Potter, which allowed the producer to go ahead with the release, scheduled for next Friday.
So far, the Indian film industry has not showered in excess films aimed at children, but producers hope the controversy will serve to bring the cinema to viewers curious.
The Bombay industry has historically been prone to draw inspiration from their American counterparts and using characters, strings and arguments that sometimes do not differ either in the letter that separates Bollywood from Hollywood.
This, in fact, is not the first "little brother" who comes to Harry Potter in the movie "AOpen Ka Dabra ', spectators attending the misadventures of an orphaned child of a famous magician who attends a magic school and are old friends of his parents.
The Indian media came to label "Bollywood" as a "factory of the theft," after last year's film "Partner" suffered a threatened lawsuit by the producer of Will Smith, upset by the resemblance of the tape with "Hitch" (2005).
In the case of the boy wizard, the owners of their rights had already been successful in India that a publisher withdrew the book "Harry Potter in Calcutta", in which the hero knew profuse classic characters of Bengali literature.
Despite his belligerence against the alleged violation of intellectual property, Warner Bros. will now have to resign themselves to seeing on the big screen adventures of the little Hari Puttar and techniques to ward off thieves.
"We have also seen Harry Potter," he told Efe Secretary of Mirchi Movies.

When "Bollywood" begins by hache

New Delhi, 29 Aug 2007. - Taking advantage of the ignorance of Western filmmakers, the Indian film industry, with over 1,000 films a year, do not hesitate to use characters, strings and arguments that sometimes do not differ either in the letter that separates Bollywood from Hollywood.
The ubiquitous Harry Potter has come, for example, a "brother" Indian in the movie "Ka Daabra AOpen" an orphan of a famous magician who goes to the best school of magic, where, making his first steps on the scene, find people who knew his parents.
The Indian film industry championed by Bombay-Bollywood produces more films and sells more tickets than its U.S. rival, but that does not stop taking it as a reference to try to break the box office.
That "passion" for Western frames attest the latest releases, three singles have to take care of a baby, a coach who takes the top with a team of girls who do not trust themselves or a version of "The Dinner Game "that has become a cult title.
A few days ago, the success of the year, "Partner", suffered even a threat of legal action by the production of actor Will Smith, angry that the film is taken too literally to his adventures in "Hitch", the year 2005.
"We know nothing of the producers of 'Hitch'. This is a controversy created by the media. In Bollywood there are 700 new movies every year. Can all be original? "He said boldly about the producer of" Partner ", Parag Sanghvi.
In the list of titles with "versions to India" are classics like "Wonderful Life", "Dirty Harry", "Vertigo," "Irma la Douce" and "The Apartment", naturally with footage kilometer and overdoses of dance and songs to spice up the movie "masala" (spice).
Indian films have also been nurtured by love ("The My Best Friend's Wedding," "When Harry Met Sally") and humor ("Mrs. Doubtfire," "Something About Mary"), have pulled "thrillers" as "Seven" or "Fatal Attraction" and, of course, musicals ("West Side Story," "Annie").
In "The Miracle of Anna Sullivan" (1962) deaf and blind girl manages to overcome his situation by his teacher, in Bollywood enough to switch to the sweet woman by the beard of the national idol, Amitabh Bachchan, who scored a great success with "Black" (2005) but was accused of copying the original sequence to sequence.
And in the film "Koi Mil Gaya", with the popular actor Hrithik Roshan-the critics do not agree on how much of ET and Forrest Gump in the film, but all agree: the writers have cooked counting them.
Is any degree of success and even "The Godfather" has escaped the hawk eye of Asian writers, as evidenced by "Hi Aankank Aakank" about the adventures of a poor farmer who comes to town, becomes a gangster and stars, as the music channel MTV, "a remake superpatético".
Western influence also reaches the hallmark of Bollywood, music: in the 70, the Indians danced, without knowing the popular "Mamma Mia" ABBA, called there "hum ko Saathi Mil Geya" (I found a couple) , and since then, the sounds strangely western mingle with local rhythms.
Is Bollywood a "factory of the theft?", Comes to ask the newspaper "Hindustan Times".
Given the business prospects that plagiarism can bring a clever composer, Aadesh Shrivastav, it is all set to create a company to protect copyright against those engaged in foreign inspiration, after speaking with American rapper Wyclef Jean .
"Wyclef was stunned to learn that they had copied their song 'Mary'. He said many of his fellow Americans do not know what happens with composers Indians, and that something should be done, "said Shrivastav.
The threat, however, - "I know that I will be the most hated man in Bollywood," says Shrivastav, can no longer prevent the popular Shah Rukh Khan canturree "Pretty Woman", accompanied by sounds of disco and mechanics, but creative - Indian choreography in her film "Kal Ho Na Ho" ("It may not be tomorrow").
And while the Indians dance and clap in the cinema actor Shah Rukh when it sounds pretty woman, no one asks about Roy Orbison.