A court in India has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Warner Brothers
against the makers of a film called “Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors,â€
the BBC reported. Warner, the studio behind the movie adaptations of
the Harry Potter
novels, had claimed that “Hari Puttar,†a film produced by the
Bollywood studio Mirchi Movies, about a 10-year-old boy who moves to
England, had a title that was too similar to its billion-dollar
franchise about J. K. Rowling’s
boy wizard. Mirchi Movies argued that Hari was a popular name in India,
and that “puttar†means son in Hindi and Punjab. In dismissing the
lawsuit the Delhi High Court said audiences could tell the differences
between Harry Potter and Hari Puttar. “Harri Puttar†is scheduled to
open in India on Friday.
Courtesy : The New York Times
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