{"id":41964,"date":"2017-10-06T02:03:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T09:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=41964"},"modified":"2017-10-06T02:18:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T09:18:03","slug":"newton-not-plagiarized-secret-ballot-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/newton-not-plagiarized-secret-ballot-director\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNewton\u201d Not Plagiarized: \u201cSecret Ballot\u201d Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

Director Amit V. Masurkar and actor Rajkummar Rao during a press conference for their film, \u201cNewton,\u201d in Mumbai, Sept. 23. (Santosh Hirlekar\/PTI)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cNewton\u201d<\/strong> had come under the scanner for allegedly being a rip-off of \u201cSecret Ballot\u201d but the director of the 2001 Iranian film, Babak Payami, has confirmed that there is no sign of plagiarism in the Amit Masurkar-directed movie.<\/p>\n

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Payami, in an interview with Cinestaan<\/em>, said he watched the film and did not find any \u201cspecific stylistic or structural similarities\u201d in \u201cNewton,\u201d which was recently selected as India\u2019s official entry to the Oscars.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw the film and there is no sign of plagiarism. These are completely different films. Any similarities between the two films are broad and I don\u2019t see any specific stylistic or structural similarities between the two films. These are two different films on a common theme,\u201d he said in the interview.<\/p>\n

Amid reports that the film has striking similarities with \u201cSecret Ballot,\u201d director-producer Anurag Kashyap came forward in support of Masurkar and reached out to Payami and film\u2019s producer Marco Muller to get their opinion.<\/p>\n

He shared a screenshot of the then yet-to-be published interview with Payami on Facebook, where the Iranian filmmaker said he was happy for the selection of \u201cNewton\u201d at the Oscars and had no issue with the thematic similarities between the two films.<\/p>\n

Kashyap had also sent the link of \u201cNewton\u201d to Muller, who after watching the film, told the director that \u201cNewton\u201d was \u201cdefinitely no rip-off from our \u2018Secret Ballot\u2019 (even if the general concept is the same).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNewton\u201d revolves around a government employee\u2019s struggle to conduct a free and fair election in a conflict-hit area of Chhattisgarh, while \u201cSecret Ballot\u201d focuses on a woman ballot officer, who visits a desolate place in Iran to convince people to cast their vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director Amit V. Masurkar and actor Rajkummar Rao during a press conference for their film, \u201cNewton,\u201d in Mumbai, Sept. 23. (Santosh Hirlekar\/PTI) \u201cNewton\u201d had come under the scanner for allegedly being a rip-off of \u201cSecret Ballot\u201d but the director of the 2001 Iranian film, Babak Payami, has confirmed that there is no sign of plagiarism…<\/p>\n

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