The latest season of Amazon Prime Video바카라s 바카라Made In Heaven바카라 has been embroiled in a few controversies. Here바카라s one that바카라s making the maximum noise.
바카라Made In Heaven 2바카라 has been garnering some glorious reviews. The show has been lauded by all and sundry. However, with so much praise, also comes a bit of the brickbats. There is a controversy that바카라s come to the forefront where an author has claimed that a certain episode of the show has tried to take bits from her personal life and her memoirs, and she hasn바카라t been duly credited for the same. The makers have outright slammed the allegations.
Yashica Dutt, an author, took to social media a few days back claiming that the makers of 바카라Made In Heaven 2바카라 have taken bits and pieces from her life and her works for one of the episodes of the Amazon Prime Video show. The 5th episode in question stars Radhika Apte, and Dutt feels that there is a striking resemblance in quite a lot of scenes in the aforementioned episode from her life, which has been documented in her book, 바카라Coming Out As Dalit바카라.
This is what Yashica Dutt wrote:
Well, plagiarism controversies aren바카라t something that바카라s new for Bollywood. Since time immemorial, with every Friday release, there have been claims of stories or thoughts or ideas or even music and scenes being lifted from other sources. People have been accusing filmmakers of having lifted their work without giving proper credit, and filmmakers have been stashing those controversies to the corner of the room in the name of 바카라inspiration바카라.
The episode in question features Radhika Apte, a Dalit woman, whose family had changed their surname so that they didn바카라t get recognised by their caste. Now, the woman is a successful woman in the United States who바카라s working in a reputed university and she is no longer ashamed to get back to her original surname. She is someone who insists on getting wed in a Buddhist way, and that gesture itself has been winning hearts all over. It바카라s a great coming-of-age story where a lot of poignant issues of current-day society are spoken of if not in the open, but at least in the subtext of the entire wedding sequence.
While there are a few similarities which point towards what Dutt is claiming. Radhika Apte바카라s character talks about how her grandmother used to clean toilets manually. In an old interview, Dutt too had spoken about her grandmother in a similar context while referring to the issues of the caste system in the country. Then, Radhika Apte바카라s character has studied law at Columbia University and is also teaching there currently. Dutt completed her Master바카라s Degree at Columbia University. Then again, Radhika Apte바카라s character has written a book called 바카라Denied바카라, which talks wholly about coming out as Dalit and going back to her original surname. The book that Dutt wrote was called 바카라Coming Out As Dalit바카라.
Strange coincidences, eh?
Well, not to forget there are some striking differences as well between the two parties in question. Radhika Apte바카라s character is a winner of the Amnesty Award whereas, in real life, Dutt has been awarded with the Sahitya Academy Yuva Puraskar. And for the unversed, the two are very different from one another. Also, the most important factor 바카라 Radhika Apte바카라s character gets married in the show, and that바카라s pretty much the entire focus of the episode. However, in real life, Dutt is not yet hitched.
The episode has been lauded for the way Radhika Apte바카라s character was written and the entire wedding was sketched out. It바카라s indeed one of the most beautiful wedding sequences shot in today바카라s times. You바카라re bound to feel emotional and teary-eyed by the end of the episode. Radhika Apte바카라s performance as a Dalit woman even got BR Ambedkar바카라s grandson Prakash Ambedkar to come forward and praise the 바카라assertion, defiance and resistance바카라 of the character.
However, with this plagiarism controversy erupting out of nowhere, the entire focus of the audience has been taken away from the main theme of the show, which is about wedding planners. In order to do some damage control, the makers of the show Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti, Alankrita Srivastava and Neeraj Ghaywan took to social media to hit back. They바카라ve unequivocally denied all claims by Dutt. Here바카라s what they wrote:
An excerpt from their post read, 바카라The central conflict of the episode is whether Pallavi should fight to have the wedding rituals that are a signifier of her identity, or not. None of the above is drawn from Yashica Dutt바카라s life or her book 바카라 바카라Coming Out As Dalit바카라. We categorically deny any claim that Ms. Dutt바카라s life or work was appropriated by us. 바카라Coming out바카라 is a 1950's academic LGBTQIA term that was first used by Mr. Sumit Baudh in the Indian caste identity context in 2007. He used this in an article he wrote for Tarshi. A decade later it was used by Ms. Dutt in her book. This term has since become common parlance for reclaiming caste-identity (sic).바카라
They went on to further deny the plagiarism claims by stating, 바카라Pallavi Menke바카라s (Radhika Apte바카라s character) fictional book, 바카라Denied바카라 is a hat-tip to several books like Ants Among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla, Caste Matters by Suraj Yengde, Coming Out As Dalit by Yashica Dutt and the Tarshi article by Sumit Baudh (sic).바카라
Whether or not Yashika Dutt바카라s work was taken for the screen without giving proper credit or even her consent is a debatable topic. But one thing is for sure 바카라 what Yashica Dutt is facing isn바카라t anything new. Numerous writers have faced it in the past, and are still facing it every day of the week. It바카라s not something new in the film and television industry. Things get lifted and taken up without permission by many filmmakers, and all you can do is knock on the doors of the courts, provided you have the bandwidth and the moolah to fight a long-drawn legal battle. For the others who don바카라t have the means to take out a bigwig filmmaker, they end up trying to at least pour their hearts out on their own social media. That way, at least they get a bit of solace in people바카라s comments and in the media frenzy that happens in the next 4-5 days around the person바카라s name.
It will be interesting to see whether or not Yashica Dutt decides to take the legal route and try to win what she claims is rightfully hers. In an interview with Quint post the entire episode, Dutt said, 바카라I need to take time to process this and then figure out the next steps,바카라 hinting that there could be something in the works.
What바카라s also good to see is that at least the makers have come out and spoken about the controversy and tried to clear their names off it. Thereby helping to take the focus off the controversy and back to the show. But sadly so, this isn바카라t the only controversy that the show has gotten embroiled in. In another episode of the show, Tarun Tahiliani, a noted Indian fashion designer, has claimed that his outfits, which were primarily used in the Mrunal Thakur episode, were used without giving him credit and were actually credited to a fictional fashion designer on the show. Will the makers open up about that as well? Well, only time will tell.