Why Kesari 2 dialogue is making headlines

He added, “It’s not like they’ve tried to hide it as well, matlab phusphusana jaisa shabd bhi uthaya hai (they have copied a word like ‘phusphusana’) . Yes, logo ke khayal mil sakte hai (people can have similar thoughts), people can think in a similar way but kisi ek topic par bilkul ek jaisi lines likh dena (writing the same lines on the same topic) is anything but a coincidence.”

Dialogues from Kesari 2 were plagiarized by Dharma without crediting the original writer/poet
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Yahya, in his post, also criticised Sumit and wrote, “As writers, the worst thing you can do to a fellow writer is pick their material up, blatantly use it without giving credits and this is what I feel dialogue writer @sumit.saxena.35912 has done here.” He also took to his Instagram Story to share his post. Tagging Sumit, he wrote, “I’m sure you know this, the worse you can do as a writer is steal some other writer’s work without crediting them for it.”

The post also tagged director Karan Singh Tyagi and producer Karan Johar along with the film’s actors Akshay Kumar and Ananya Panday. While Yahya’s post is now deleted, he has reshared an Instagram story that criticises Sumit and the makers for stealing Yahya’s words. Sharing the story, the poet wrote, “Well penned bhai.”

Sumit Saxena reacts to accusations

Days after accusations of plagiarism against him, writer Sumit Saxena took to his Instagram handle to claim “he is not the only writer on the film”. Sharing a long post on Instagram, the Kesari 2 writer

claimed, “I was wrongly accused of plagiarism. And hence, I got massively trolled , bullied and abused for that.” He added, “The truth is I didn’t write those lines. On 9th May, 2023, I received them via email in an FDX file named ‘Dilreet train station’ from the director. Those lines were already part of Dilreet’s dialogues in that scene. I didn’t know who wrote those lines. I am not the ONLY writer on the film.”

 

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In his post, Sumit clarified that he is not writing this to defend himself but to voice against plagiarism. “I do not blame Yahya Bootwala. He did what any artist should — he stood up for what he believed was his original work and fought for his rightful credit in the way he deemed fit. I am glad that he received support and that the matter was amicably settled with the producers.”

In his long post he addressed both plagiarism and trolling as he shared screenshots of the kind of comments he received with many trolling him for stealing Bootwala’s lines.