Apr 01 2008
Ram Gopal Verma sent a legal notice!
A legal notice is sent by Noida Police to Bollywood filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma alleging him cheating Super Cassette Industries Pvt Ltd, the maker of T-Series brand of audio and video cassettes and getting a loss of Rs. 15 million.
On the company’s complaint a criminal case was filed against the film maker at the Sector 20 police station of Noida and a notice is sent on Saturday by investigation officer Narendra Kumar Sharma asking him to appear before the officer within 7 days of the notice.
Neeraj Kalyan, an official of Super Cassette Industries complaint that Varma on June 13, 2006 signed an agreement with the company selling the rights of his upcoming 14 films at the Film City Noida on a Rs.100 non-judicial stamp paper. Verma clearly stated in the papers that all rights, including marketing, publicity and realization of outstanding money and even copyright of his new films have been given to Super Cassette Industries. He stated that the 14 films, including, “Nishabd”, “Aag” and “Darwaja Band Rakho”, would be the sole proprietorship of Super Cassette.
As par the agreement company invested Rs.14 million on a film produced by Varma, which incurred heavy losses. But in anticipation of recovering the loss in the other films, the company continued to invest in his new ventures. But Varma, breaching the contract, signed up with another company to realise the outstanding cash of his new ventures from the market.
When interrogated by the company officials about the matter Verma clearly denied and assured them that he would abide by the old agreement. But after giving public notices in newspaper stating the agreement details between the company and Ram Gopal Verma, the truth is disclosed.
Verma signed on ADLABS to realise all payments from the market, including the copyrights of the films after terminating the old agreement with Super Cassette.
No clarification on the issue is given by Ram Gopal Verma yet.
