Much like Prabhu Deva’s last release Rambo Rajkumar (the title of which was later changed to R… Rajkumar), Warner Bros’ have sent a copyright infringement claim to Baba Arts and Eros International – the producers of Action Jackson.
However, this time around, the makers are in no mood to give-in and change the title of their film.
“We named the film Action Jackson because our hero Ajay Devgn is known as ‘AJ’ and we thought it would be a good idea to use the initials and extend it into the title Action Jackson as Ajay is doing both action and dancing in the film” Prabhu Deva said in a telephonic interview.
The director also added that, unlike Rambo Rajkumar, the dispute over the title is very different this time around.
“It isn’t like Rambo Rajkumar where Rambo was a patented name by the Hollywood studio. How can anyone claim copyright over the words ‘action’ and ‘Jackson’? And since the word ‘Jackson’ is in my title for the dancing, we might have Michael Jackson’s family claiming copyright violation. We can’t just keep giving in like this for every title” he added.
When informed that there was Hollywood film with the ‘Action Jackson’ title that released in 1988 featuring Carl Weathers and Sharon Stone, Prabhu said “I had never heard of a Hollywood film titled Action Jackson. Didn’t it come 25 years ago? So many films are titled Romeo & Juliet. Should Shakespeare’s family sue?”
Gordan Tanwani of Baba Arts alleged that a big studio like Warner Bros want to ‘pressurise’ individual producers like him, when 70% of the film has already been shot.
“When you register a title with any or all of these associations, they get their clearance from the government of India. My film is 70 percent complete, why have they sent a notice now? Why do they have an objection now and not earlier”
“It is just because they want to pressurise the individual producer…they know I am an individual producer and they are big people. They want to create pressure on the small producer,” Tanwani said.
Starring Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha and Yami Gautham, Action Jackson is set to clash against Akshay Kumar’s Holiday on June 6th. The trade believes, the title ‘Action Jackson’ could have a huge advantage over Holiday in mass-dominated centres.
Aisa lgta he sb history bhul gye hein.
Ajay Vs Akshay
All The Best beats Blue
Golmaal3 beats Action Replay
now Action Jackson gona defeat Holiday
@Singham 2
Those both films were poor films of Akki,while Ajay had Rohit shetty movies..
On any day,Akshay has bigger fan following than Ajay.
@Babaji ka thullu Are u mad?? U know the REAL only one who is nothing without holidays is none other than Bhai himself as we have just seen with his latest debtacle Jai Ho……………….without holidays and open weeks we recently saw that this bhai was nothing! CE had competition every week but still was the first movie to break 3idiots record………………..whilst ETT had big EID holiday and extended weekend and 3 open weeks but still cudnt break 3idiots record so please think b4 u talk becuz u will talk rubbish as u just have…………………..
@singham2 @Babaji Ask him which film always takes good opening.Blue beat all the best but blue budget was high.He is not even a fan of ajay but one of the khans
Golmaal 3 was a sequel
@Babaji : 100% true about srk n his fans !!!!!
I wish both Akshay & AJ Devgan all the best. May both movies turns profitable n landmark in both careers. These two wud have ruled bollywood had they not acted in same era as Khan trio & Hrithik !!!!!!!
its somewhere like amir vs salman bcoz ghajini & wanted director who gave amir & salman new life in bollywood
whatever you change the title,it gonna be huge flop due to flop devgan.