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.