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Hollywood is suing India's Hari Puttar

by Criticom | August 27, 2008 at 05:51 pm

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Hollywood's Warner Bros is suing an Indian production company whose new film is called "Hari Puttar".

The studio had started proceedings against the makers of "Hari Puttar" over similarities to the international film and literary phenomenon, said Warner Bros. spokeswoman Deborah Lincoln.

"We confirm that we have recently commenced proceedings against parties involved in the production and distribution of a movie entitled 'Hari Puttar'," Lincoln told

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rumana husain

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at 19:31 on August 27th, 2008

Criticom, I like this story. It's good stuff. this is quite funny. hollywood obviously does not know that 'hari' is a hindu name and that 'puttar' means 'son' in the punjabi langauge (spoken in india as well as in pakistan)

Uwe Paschen

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at 01:57 on August 28th, 2008

Criticom, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Rocky Sandhu (not verified)

at 11:25 on August 29th, 2008

Finally, hollywood takes action against bollywood. Me being indian, I've seen tons of movies that bollywood has copied from hollywood. It's time bollywood come up with their own ideas instead of copying what other movie-writers have probably spent weeks on. Now, with this story.... it's truly dispicable. Hari Puttar...... It better not be a Harry Potter remake.