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00:00Namaskar, I am Nagabharanam. In 2003, one of my films, Chigurida Kanasu, was released.
00:11That is, 2nd October 2003, my film Chigurida Kanasu was released, for which I had worked
00:22from 2000, obtaining the rights from the Janapeet Award winning writer. Not only a writer, he
00:33was a doyen in Kannada literature, and more than that, he was also a filmmaker, and he
00:38was heading a lot of film committees, as chairman, Dr. Sivaramakaran. I based on that novel,
00:49I took the rights of that novel from the right holder, after Dr. Sivaramakaran, Srimati Malini
00:56Madhiyan, and finally, I got a fantastic producer, especially Dr. Rajkumar's family, for which
01:06I did this film. Srimati Parvatamma Rajkumar was the producer, and her son, Sivarajkumar
01:14was in the making. Somewhere in 2004, the fag end of 2004, I was getting a feedback
01:22from Mumbai, that there is some film called Swadesh, on 17-12-2004, when the film got
01:30released, I was shocked to see Swadesh, almost, in a way, a replica of my film, which I had
01:38shot in 2002, released in 2003. I immediately tried to contact him, but there was no response
01:46from Ashutoshji and the producer, who himself was the producer. My producer, when I asked,
01:52they said, okay, don't go for legal actions, because it is also a film like mine, so let
01:57them enjoy that. That is the generosity of South Indian filmmakers. I just kept quiet.
02:04But, I was in the jury, when Sudhir Mishra was the chairman, and the same film came for
02:13the contest. I was a little annoyed, and I told my fellow jury members, that it is a
02:20remake of my film. You can compare with that. And when I showed my film to them, they were
02:27aghast. They said, why didn't you sue him? Why didn't you try to, during that time itself,
02:32I made a hulabaloo out of that. I said, I am a filmmaker, rather than those kind of
02:37type of controversial filmmakers. And you know the result. And page three got the best
02:42film. But today, after seeing all the details of Mahanjodaro, that, this, and everything,
02:51I thought, I must express my disbelief in the fraternity of my colleagues, without ethics,
02:58without moral, they must acknowledge the original writer.