Film actor Manoj Kumar has filed a plea in a Mumbai’s city civil court asking for a stay on the telecast of the film ‘Om Shanti Om’ on
television. Soon after the film was released in 2007 Kumar had objected to the manner in which he had been portrayed in the film.
Kumar’s plea said that he took most offence at a scene where a character resembling him is shown trying to enter the premiere show of a movie. The same character is shooed away by guards and even beaten with a stick, the application said.
The application said that Kumar was proud of his reputation in the public and owing to the services he had rendered in the interests of the nation, he was also called ‘Bharat Kumar’ by the people. The plea said that every actor had his own style of acting and the movie had copied him and ridiculed him.
Kumar has told court that soon after he had objected to the scenes in the movie, Yash Chopra apologized and assured him that offensive portions will be cut from print.
Kumar has sought a stay on the telecast of the movie on television saying it would greatly harm his reputation. He has argued that these days more people watch movies at home on television, than they do in theatres and thus he wants the scenes portraying him to be cut before it is telecast. The matter will be heard on Wednesday.
OSO was nothing but a crap. I pity Manoj Kumar that at a such ripe age he has to fight a court battle. He shouldn't bother about such a thing stupid things as inadvertently, it is giving OSO publicity. And, in Bollywood it is said no publicity is bad publicity..
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