Bolly Tamasha

The Bobby Deol hit film, Nanhe Jaisalmer, has been the talk of the town recently. It seems that director Sameer Karnik has been accused by writer Nikhil Saini for ripping off his original script. The tribunal of writers association has ruled in favor of Nikhil Saini and a final decision is expected within a day or two. Besides a large payment among other things heading Nikhil’s way, this all means that Nanhe Jaisalmer will not be released on schedule. Here’s what Nikhil had to say,

Sameer Karnik has stabbed me in the back. I never thought that he would do something like this to me. Nanhe Jaisalmer is originally my script and screenplay. I used to know him very well as he had made Kyon…..Ho Gaya Na for Boneyji. I narrated the film to him in good faith but I never knew that he would make some cosmetic changes and make his film out of it. I just came to know about it when I saw the promos and read in the newspapers about the story of a child in awe of a star.

Sameer Karnik denies the allegations and claims that his film is based on a real life story of a child in Jaisalmer in Rajasthan and has nothing to do with Saini’s story. It seems as the the writer’s tribunal has made their decision. We will have to wait and see the outcome.