Bollywood triumphs in big Hari movie deal
MUMBAI, India -- Move over Harry Potter. Make way for Hari Puttar.
Hari Puttar is set to hit cinema screens this week after an Indian court rejected a Warner Bros. suit claiming the name was too close to its Harry Potter series.
The court said in its ruling Monday that people who have watched the Harry Potter movies and read the books would know the difference between that and an Indian Punjabi film called Hari Puttar -- A Comedy of Terrors.
The producers, Mirchi Movies, said the Puttar movie bore no resemblance to the famous boy wizard franchise. Hari is a common name in India and Hindi for God, while "puttar" is Punjabi for son.
"It's clearly great to have won this case," Munish Purii, Mirchi's chief executive told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Warner Bros. spokeswoman Deborah Lincoln said the company was reviewing the judgment.
Hari Puttar is not a tale of magic, but the story of an Indian boy and his cousin forgotten at home in Britain where his family has recently moved -- in a plot more reminiscent of the film Home Alone.
-- The Associated Press
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