Film maker Ram Gopal Varma's bid to make a remake of the 1970s blockbuster
Sholay has run into rough weather with the Delhi High Court restraining its release.
The roadblocks for the release of the film in which superstar Amitabh Bachchan has assumed the roll of 'Gabbar Singh' came recently on a lawsuit filed by the grandson of G P Sippy, who had produced
Sholay.
The suit filed by Sippy Films Private Limited and Sholay Media and Entertainment Private Limited, owned by Sascha Sippy and Shan Uttam Singh had sought stay on the release of Varma's film maintaining the use of the name
Sholay by any other entity amounts to infringement of trade mark and copyright.
In the suit filed through the law firm Anand and Anand, they contended that they also have copyright on the use of character 'Gabbar Singh,' which was played by late Amjad Khan in
Sholay. Sascha Sippy, director of the Sippy Films, claimed that the late G P Sippy's son Ajit Sippy who reportedly sold the copyrights to Varma, had no