Meanwhile, on the work front, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is best known for helming films like 'Delhi-6', 'Rang De Basanti', 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' and most recently 'Toofan'.

The filmmaker further stressed that the entire dispute is civil in nature and stated that 'the intention to prosecute is to gain unwanted publicity by misuse of police and judicial machineries'. A young idealistic English filmmaker, Sue, arrives in India to make a film on Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and their contemporaries and their fight for freedom from the British Raj. He also alleged that the script discussed by the writer was neither copyright protected, nor was it published. AKA: Paint it Saffron, Paint It Yellow, Colour It Yellow, Mistakes Corrected. While stating that there is no copyright for an idea, in his application, he also made an argument that under Copyright Act, there is no bar to producing identical results by using the same idea. He argued that the story of 'Rang De Basanti' is original and different from the script of 'Inquilab'. During the course of the hearing, Rakeysh moved an application for discharge on the ground that no offence is made to the issue process. Now, while relying upon the order of the Sessions court, the Magistrate court observed that the present proceeding by a Sessions court was binding on the lower court.

Notably, writer Mustaq Mohsin approached the court, claiming that he had discussed a script titled 'Inquilab' with the filmmaker but Mehra used the same script for his film 'Rang de Basanti', which was released in the year 2006. Aamir Khan and other actors were good and it was nice to see a movie where a single protagonist doesn’t take complete credit. The sessions court had observed that the 'criminal proceeding itself was not tenable as the story 'Inquilab' was not registered' and that there was no 'prima facie material to prove the offenses punishable under the Copyright Act'. I watched the movie (Rang De Basanti) last night with some of my friends. He had moved the Sessions court which had set aside the Magistrate court order of issuing process. Earlier, in the case, the session court gave relief to the producer of the film Ronnie Screwala. While giving relief to the ace filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra in the film 'Rang De Basanti' copyright infringement case, the Aurangabad court has acquitted him from all the charges made by a writer and accused him and the makers of the film of plagiarism.

Rang de basanti 2006