He said that under Copyright Act, there is no bar to producing identical results by using the same idea, as there is no copyright for the idea. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra gets relief from Aurangabad court in copyright case Rakeysh also revealed that the script of Rang De Basanti was completely different from the alleged script of Inquilab. The filmmaker claimed that that Mohsin's complaint did not make out ingredients of the offense and suppressed material facts misleading the court to obtain an order of issue process. However, as the hearing of the case proceeded further, the director argued to discharge on the ground that no offense is made to the issue process. The writer had then filed a complaint before the court and issued a process against Rakeysh and Rohinton Screwvala, the film's producer.

According to various media reports, a writer named Mushtaq Mohsin had claimed that he had discussed a script titled Inquilab with Rakeysh who in turn used the same for his film Rang de Basanti which was released in 2006. Ace filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra was recently granted relief by the Magistrate court in Aurangabad in a copyright infringement criminal case.

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