{"id":4589,"date":"2009-08-20T02:08:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T02:08:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-20T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T04:08:09","slug":"Danny-Boyle-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=4589","title":{"rendered":"Danny Boyle sued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is so not surprising. Someone else trying to ride the gravy train.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nakul Singh Nepali,<\/strong> son of Gopal Singh Nepali, has filed a suit at the Bombay High Court against the makers of Slumdog Millionaire, saying that they wrongly credited poet Surdas for writing the song Darshan Do Ghanashyam.<\/p>\n<p>According to the suit, <strong>Nepali says his father, a poet, wrote the song and that the filmmakers \u2013 Danny Boyle and Celador Films Ltd \u2013 have caused loss of reputation to his father and violated the author\u2019s rights.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nepali <\/strong>has claimed <strong>Rs 5 crore ($1million euro) as damages, with added interest at 21 per cent per annum from the date of filing the suit<\/strong>. He has also sought to have the filmmakers prohibited from presenting in any form the portion of the movie that says that Surdas is the author of the song. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/4910513.cms\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<!--Session data--><br \/>\n<!--Session data--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so not surprising. Someone else trying to ride the gravy train. 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