Prabhu Dheva to not use English titles for his film
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Posted by Fenil Seta
Subhash K Jha (DNA; May 1, 2014)
Though Prabhu Dheva’s Ajay Devgn-starrer will be titled
Action Jackson after all, he won’t use any English names in his titles
ever again. The matter of the title being a copyright infringement of
the 1988 Hollywood film of the same name has been sorted out by the
producers. Prabhu Dheva is very upset by the way the title’s validity was
questioned by the international producers. He says, “I don’t understand
how or why every film title we use in India has to be cleared abroad as
well. In that case, the law should work both ways. We should also be
allowed to question them as to why their films have titles that sound
like ours. Why was James Cameron’s film called Avatar? Years before that
a Bollywood director Mohan Kumar had made a film called Avatar. Please
explain how the same title found its way for Cameron’s film.”
Just to be
on the safe side, Prabhu Dheva has decided not to use non-Indian titles
in his film. So far four of his five Hindi directorial ventures have had
proper names in the title. He will now restrict his titles to desi
names only. “We have wonderful names in our country and they make
excellent titles,” he concludes.
This entry was posted on October 4, 2009 at 12:14 pm, and is filed under
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