Prakash Jha Files Case for Illegal Screening of ‘Rajneeti’ to BJP MLAs

Filmmaker Prakash Jha has lodged a complaint against those who illegally screened his recently released movie Rajneeti in Jaipur on Tuesday, said media reports.

The film was screened for Rajasthan BJP legislatures using a pirated DVD.

The state unit of the party has holed up its MLAs in a five-star resort on the outskirts of Jaipur for a few days to keep them united ahead of Rajya Sabha election.

However, it now faces a new trouble for illegal screening of the film which is based on politics of coalition and horse trading.

Jha filed a case against BJP MLA RS Rathore and the owner of the five star hotel, reports said.

In reaction to the illegal act, Jha told a news channel: “This is most abhorring that how lawmakers are the first lawbreakers. I am absolutely dismayed and shattered that the film which has just been released is being screened in such an illegal manner.”

“It is hardly one-and-a-half weeks old and this is how blatantly law of land is broken by the same people who are lawmakers. We will take appropriate action against the hotel and the people who have seen the film in this manner. We will be definitely taking legal action against them,” he was quoted as saying.

However, the BJP leaders put up a defence when inquired about the incidence, said reports.

“I don’t know anything. Only hotel management can say about it. But I think when movies release, DVDs are also there in the market so there is nothing unlawful about it,” MLA Digamber Singh was quoted as saying.

Responding to a query if indeed the official DVDs of the film had been released in the market, manager of a multiplex in Jaipur, Murari Lal Sharma said, “Rajneeti has been released only for screening in cinema and multiplex in Jaipur and if someone watches this on CD or DVD, it is illegal.”

(Based on internet reports)