Akshay Kumar’s ‘Khiladi’ producer Ratan Jain furious as Ravi Teja’s Telugu ‘Khiladi’ is set to release across the country in Hindi | Hindi Movie News

The ‘Khiladi’ moniker and movie franchise is synonymous with Akshay Kumar. However now, Telugu star Ravi Teja is popping out with a movie titled ‘Khiladi’, a Telugu authentic that has been dubbed in Hindi and can launch within the pan-India market quickly. This new launch has upset the apple cart and left producer Ratan Jain livid.

Ratan Jain, the producer of the unique ‘Khiladi’, which starred Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan, has moved the courtroom with a plea to alter the title of Ravi Teja’s movie and stall the discharge on OTT and different platforms. Chatting with ETimes Jain mentioned, “We wish the courtroom to instruct the producers to alter the title of the movie because the ‘Khiladi’ title is registered with us beneath the trademark act and whereas the discharge of the movie that stars Ravi Teja isn’t going to incur us monetary losses, it’s in regards to the status of the ‘Khiladi’ movies.”

Jain believes South movies that launch in pan-India markets with Hindi titles are doubtlessly going to trigger injury to Bollywood and he feels that a number of people from the Hindi movie business are backstabbing their very own friends. Jain added, “After ‘Pushpa’ launched and did some good enterprise right here, there are numerous who will attempt to emulate that very same factor and the most important instance right now is ‘Khiladi’ that has Ravi Teja because the hero. The individuals who will watch this film will actually not know who’s going to be within the movie after they click on on it on-line. However their clicking determination might be influenced by the identify ‘Khiladi’, which is a extremely popular title and that belongs to us.”

Talking about how it’s carried out down South, Jain mentioned, “The associations down South register Hindi titles for Telugu movies of their native places of work after which they’re dubbed and launched in Hindi with the identical title. This occurs as a result of the CBFC has allowed dubbed movies with the titles much like Hindi movies, to launch throughout the nation. However this was not the case some years in the past.”

He added, “We don’t get to know if a Hindi title is registered down South. We had no concept about Ravi Teja’s ‘Khiladi’ and the worst half is {that a} Hindi movie manufacturing is concerned with this launch and we weren’t instructed about it. No permissions have been taken from us, both. The CBFC has mentioned that in case you have registered a title in Telugu then you’ll be able to launch the movie with the identical title. The board actually doesn’t know the implications of such issues on our enterprise and the way such practices hurt the unique producer. It not solely hurts our enterprise prospects it hampers the status of a model that we personal. That’s what they’ve carried out with ‘Khiladi’.”

Jain revealed that the producers behind Ravi Teja’s Hindi dubbed ‘Khiladi’ adopted a sly technique. He mentioned, “The movie was to launch on February 11 they usually launched the trailer solely on February 8, in order that we’re not alerted properly in time to take mandatory motion. However now we have moved the courtroom and the choose has instructed us that it is too late to take an motion in opposition to their movie.”