We went and saw Rab ne banadi jodi yesterday. As I had already imagined, this had lot of similarities with one of my stories. This is one of the two stories that I had sent to Mirchi movies in May this year. Somehow I feel that concepts of my story have been lifted. I know there is no direct link between Mirchi movies and Yash Raj films. But there is every possibility of someone at the MML office selling off the story to someone at YRF for some small amount. The striking similarities:
Dance reality show vs Dance competition
Husband trying to prove that he loves his wife not by words but by deeds
Call centre employee vs Electricity company employee
"Thank you for calling Nissan, my name is Lijo." vs "Punjab Power, lighting up your lives. This is Surinder Sahni"
Lijo having an infatuation before marriage vs Taani having a lover who dies before marriage
The only thing in addition to my story is Surinder playing the guise of Raj to impress his wife. And this is the only part that is not so digestable. How can one just shave off his moustache and gel his hair and become a person that even his own wife cannot make out? I know in countries like the US we could sue both YRF and MML on the basis of doubt and even the fees of the lawyers would have been on a commission basis. I don’t think that could be possible here. But if there are any lawyers who would like to take up this case(purely on commission basis, no fees), I am ready to give all proofs of the story being my original work, proof that I had courired it to MML office. Visit vizcreations and look for kya tum mujhse pyar karte ho under the blogs section to read my original story.
Rajiv