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A question of copyright

Bombay High Court Justice K. R. Shriram, while permitting the movie Rangoon to be released as scheduled on February 24, 2017, has directed filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj to deposit two crore rupees as guarantee until the final disposal of a copyright suit filed by Roy Wadia, managing director of Wadia Movietone (WM). Roy alleged that a character in Rangoon played by Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut is based on that of Fearless Nadia, the lead in WM’s movie Hunterwali. Mary Evans, better known as Fearless Nadia, who essayed the role of the protagonist in that 1935 movie starred in several WM films......



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