Hari Puttar Lawsuit
The Indian movie Hari Puttar - A Comedy of Terrors is about a 10-year-old Indian boy living in Great Britain who saves his father's top secret computer chip from getting into the wrong hands. The company Mirchi Movies, which produces and distributes the movie, is being sued by Warner Bros. over the similarities between the names Hari Puttar and the Warner Bros. Harry Potter franchise.1
Fast Facts
- Release date: September 12, 20081
- The Hari Putar name was registered in 20052
- Hari is a common Indian name. Putar means son in Punjabi, a language spoken in India and parts of Pakistan1
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Warner Bros., the sixth Harry Potter movie, will be released in July 2009. The date was pushed back from an earlier November 2008 date, but the reason seems to be unrelated to the lawsuit2
- Mirchi Movies representatives appeared in the Mumbai court on August 25, 2008 to defend their side in the lawsuit1
- Mirchi Movies says the movie doesn't have any similarities to the Harry Potter movies1
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Harry Potter | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Warner Bros.
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