Drishyam

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• This was the Hindi remake of the superhit Malayalam film of the same name released in 2013. The original film was written and directed by Jeethu Joseph and starred Mohanlal. The Malayalam film was also remade in a number of other languages - in Kannada as "Drishya" (2014), in Telugu as "Drushyam" (2014), in Tamil as "Papanasam" (2015), in Sinhala as "Dharmayuddhaya" (2017), and in Mandarin Chinese as "Sheep Without a Shepherd" (2019). All versions of the film were very successful.
• It was widely believed that Jeethu Joseph's story for the Malayalam film was a clever adaptation of the acclaimed Japanese mystery novel "The Devotion of Suspect X" (2005) written by Keigo Higashino. When it was reported that the Malayalam film was being remade in Hindi, producer Ekta Kapoor sent a legal notice to its makers citing copyright infringement. The notice claimed that Kapoor had bought the filmmaking rights to adapt "The Devotion of Suspect X" in Hindi. It said that the Hindi remake of the Malayalam film would be in conflict with the film Ekta Kapoor was planning to make. Responding to the legal notice, Joseph said that his story was original and not an adaptation of the Japanese novel.[1][2]

1. ^ Ekta Kapoor's Claim Spurs Controversy over 'Drishyam'
2. ^ Drishyam director responds to Ekta Kapoor's legal notice