Writer Danish Raza lodges a police complaint against Ram Gopal Varma

The screenplay-script writer Danish Raza has filed a police complaint of fraud against Ram Gopal Varma, who is a well-reputed Indian director. Raza has claimed that Varma, also known as RGV, has not paid him his dues for the film.

Raza, on May 7, told the police that someone named Neeraj Sharma from RGV’s office contacted him to write screenplay of ‘Department’. He further added that RGV promised him for the payment but later on ditched him.

“I further started work on the screenplay… Ramu worked on some scenes and we had a discussion like the normal creative process. My fee was fixed but all along, I kept asking for the contract. But they kept dilly-dallying. As a result, I stopped work and they sent me a soft copy of the contract via mail. Now I felt that they will sign the contract and I kept waiting for the hard copy which never happened and they stopped taking my calls,” said Danish.

Raza insisted that Neeraj contacted him later on and said that the film is facing some financial issues and RGV has got busy with some other projects and he will get back but nothing happened.

“I stopped pursuing for my payment since I felt it was now futile and I left for Delhi for my other project. But later some time I saw that the promos and stills of the movie were out. I came back to Mumbai and filed a police complaint on May 7,” said Danish. “I have got all the evidence, copies of all the mails exchanged and contract mails they sent me. Then I have also got the hard copy of the script with corrections in Ramu’s handwriting,” the writer added.

Well, all said and done, let’s see how Ram Gopal Varma responds to this situation.

‘Department’, which is one of the most eagerly awaited films of this year, is scheduled to hit the cinemas on May 18.

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