Actor Randeep Hooda’s Biopic movie on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is facing trouble as the director & actor of the movie Randeep Hooda and Producer Sandeep Singh both have claimed their ownership over copyrights for the story. Randeep plays the title role of Savarkar. The movie aims to bring the struggle faced in his life and contributed his bravery to the forefront.
Originally when the film was announced on its promotional posters, Randeep Hooda was the Director, lead actor, and co-producer of the Film, and Sandeep Singh and Anand Pandit were listed as the film producers on its advertising collateral.
Apart from Randeep Hooda as the main lead in the film. Ankita Lokhande, Amit Sial, and R Bhakti Klein will be seen playing pivotal roles in the film. The movie Swatantraya Veer Savarkar release date is not yet decided, but according to the latest source, the movie is expected to release on September 2024.
Press Release issued by Randeep Hooda and his Legal Team
A press release was released recently by Randeep Hooda Productions and the statements issued on the press release stated that the actor cum director owns the copyrights of the entire movie Swantantya Veer Savarkar. The press release also mentioned the actor’s first debutant as a Director.
Karan Halai of M/s Halai and co-advocates and legal consultants on behalf of the actor issued s statement claiming that the movie was directed, and produced by Randeep Hooda and completed the movie despite facing all problems and hurdles while making the film including financial, mental, and physical.
Other entities were allegedly attempting to violate Randeep’s legal rights to the movie, according to the statement, and it continued, “He has thwarted obstructions created by other parties bent upon disrupting the making of the film, as well as attempting to infringe on his legal rights.
The Statement continued by saying the actor has faced grave agony and losses, including risking his life as he underwent weight loss to fit into the character and tried hard to do justice to the character of Veer Savarkar ji.
The statement claimed that Randeep Hooda is the sole owner of all the film intellectual property rights and legally speaking, is in a strong position with all his legal options open to ensure the timely release of the movie and that they are confident enough that the audience will eagerly wait to sense the true and inspiring story of our freedom fighter of all time.
Sandeep Singh and Anand Pandit take legal fight over Randeep’s claim
On behalf of Sandeep Singh, legend Studios Private Limited( the movie’s joint producer), and Anand Pandit Motion Pictures LLP, attorney Ravi Suryawanshi responded to the claim, he stated that Sandeep Singh and Anand Pandit are joint producers and have 100% ownership over Intellectual Property rights and exploitation rights of the film Swantantya Veer Savarkar.
The attorney also stated that both the producers are deeply shocked over the baseless and false claim by Randeep Hooda over the copyright claim of the film. He added that Anand Pandit Motion Pictures LLP & Legend Studios Private Limited both signed Randeep Hooda as an actor in the Veer Savarkar Biopic movie.
Anand Pandit & Sandeep Singh have put an allegation against the actor that he took all the footage away without prior permission or any notification and didn’t return the footage despite multiple attempts made.
Both Producers also said that the film was supposed to complete within 20 Crore of budget and Randeep Hooda would get paid as a director but the film went beyond the budget as the actor met with an accident while shooting for another project and the shooting for this movie was kept on hold.
