How else can the repeated gimmickry that is being carried out in the name of lawsuits be explained? This is nothing to do with the judicial process but the fact that the same person has the ‘skin’ to move the same petition twice, this after it had already been proved once that the petition submitted had nothing worth considering. The name of the person clearly does not matter here- this might sound clichéd but that is what seems to be true, at least to a neutral observer. Till yesterday all this seemed like the acts of a person trying to grab a few bytes of media or a few bucks if he could chance on any, but the observation made by the judge paints a totally different picture.

The judge has said that the stories submitted by the two parties have the same 10 characters but the stories had no apparent similarity. Now the occurrence of 10 identical characters in stories written by two people cannot be dismissed as pure coincidence. Going by the laws of probability the chance of this happening is one in a trillion if not more. What this means is that some ‘leak’ has taken place (we don’t need Sherlock Holmes to figure this out) and what this means is that someone knows more than he is supposed to know about Dasavatharam. If the ten characters are out in the sun in spite of such tight security and so many spurious roles and stills doing the rounds on the internet that certainly means that something more than guesswork is at work here. It might be another cliché but we cannot help saying ‘figuring this out is not integral calculus’.

It is more than plainly evident that foul play is rife with Dasavatharam and there are people who would like to see it totally messed up and they are giving as much trouble as possible, being as mischievous as they can be. But what they/he seemed to have missed is that it takes lot more than 10 identical names to convince the judge of a court that plagiarism has actually taken place. Even if they did that, no one wouldn’t believe that names like Kamal Haasan, K.S.Ravikumar and Crazy Mohan have run out of ideas to eat into someone else intellectual property. Also it would be hard to swallow the fact that Oscar Ravichandran did not have enough money for whatever story was on offer to be bought outright (all of his films are big hits). This attempt at bringing Dasavatharam and its makers to disrepute is akin to slapstick comedy. But this one should not be laughed away. The industry must come out in support of the Dasavatharam team; at least to prove a point that this kind of fiddling around is not going to work, especially when it is Kamal Haasan.

Though Kamal does not really need it, he fought his battle himself. The only appeal is to the courts of the country. There are still many courts in this country that the ‘wronged’ petitioner can approach. Please consider the petition and dismiss it as per legal procedures, just don’t summon Kamal Haasan to court. He happens to be busy making history (Dasavatharam) which is going to take Tamil cinema to a new unexplored territory. Let the man do his work.