Marco Muller gives Newton clean chit
The producer of Secret Ballot says Newton is not plagiarised from his movie.
When it comes to defending someone, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap ensures he goes all out to back them. With Rajkummar Rao’s Newton being accused of plagiarism, Anurag decided to take things into his hands, and all he had to do was send out a wise tweet.
When film critic Khalid Mohamed wrote a Facebook post that the story of Newton matches with that of a decade-old Iranian movie named Secret Ballot, it led to a debate.
Anurag came to the defence of Newton’s makers and slammed those who alleged that the film was lifted.
Sharing his thoughts in a post on Facebook, Anurag wrote, “With over enthusiastic media and our cinephiles with over active imagination.. who called Newton a copy of Secret Ballot, here is what the producer of Secret Ballot said to me after watching Newton. I requested the link of Newton from its director and send it to Marco Muller, the producer. And he wrote back ‘A pretty decent film, definitely no rip off from our Secret Ballot (even if the general concept is the same)’ and then I asked him if I can share his response on social media ? He replied, ‘please feel free as you see fit, there is not even a hint of plagiarism’.. below is the screen shot. (sic)”