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An interview to an online channel was all it took for struggling filmmaker N. Gopi to trigger a necessary debate on the issue of plagiarism and the vulnerability of writers in the absence of legal contracts and non-disclosure agreements.
Since Thursday, Gopi's interview, in which he speaks about how Kaththi’s story, credited to arguably the highest-paid filmmaker of Tamil cinema, A.R. Murugadoss, was allegedly stolen from him, has been widely shared online.
Even if Gopi’s version is disproved, the fact remains that struggling filmmakers are sitting ducks as they have no option but to narrate their scripts to multiple producers, thereby putting their intellectual property in the public space without any legal safeguards.
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