Yash Patnaik says that Shah Rukh Khan's Ra.One concept is his!!!

Beyond Dreams CEO Yash Patnaik is known to be a spunky character. He broke away from Fireworks Productions after being with the company for many years to set up his own production house. He then went on to produce some challenging TV shows, riding out the good with the bad. Now the young man has gone head to head with Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment. If news agency reports are to be believed, he managed to convince the Bombay High Court to ask Shah Rukh and Eros Entertainment to cough up Rs 10 million as a pay order to the court by 22 October or face an injunction preventing the film’s release. Yash has alleged that Ra.One has been pinched from his story which he had registered with the Film Writers’ Association on 26 December 2006. “In my script, the villain was named as One,” he says. “The court examined my script and found many – close to 17-18 similarities - between what is transpiring in the Ra.One promo and my script. Backgrounds, characterizations, situations- there are too many similarities.” Yash’s contention is that the there’s a case of plagiarism and theft and he wants to be get compensated or given credit for the same. According agency reports, the court said that “it is the most unfortunate part of the film industry that people use others’ concepts and then don’t want to pay or give them credit.” However, the court has not pronounced any final verdict against Red Chillies and said that a decision on the issue of copyright violation will be taken after hearing arguments from both sides in the due course of time. The film is slated to release on 26 October in India, and premier on 24 October in Dubai. Tellychakkar.com tried to reach out to Red Chillies and Shah Rukh Khan on the way forward and no response was forthcoming. All that Eros’s Sunil Lulla had to say was: “Please speak to my PR. And by the way I am not supposed to make the payment to the court.” At the time of writing, sources indicated that the defendants (read Red Chillies and Eros) had decided to heed the court’s order and had agreed to deposit a pay order of Rs 1 crore with the Mumbai High Court. The news is unconfirmed, as Red Chillies was not available for comment. Now if this is true, then film lovers who have been waiting for the extremely well promoted film for a long time, will get to see G-One on time on screen after all.