Sharing insights on how important sound legal advice is to the box office success of a film, Aggarwal said,
“It is extremely important. Today everybody is approaching the court at the drop of a hat. I unfortunately have many, many examples to cite. For example in RRR, Junior NTR’s character is a dramatization of certain real incidents. His character is Hindu, but it takes on the attire of a Muslim guy. We had multiple cases addressing that…we had to ward them off at the last minute. These cases are generally taken in the small courts, but it’s just the timing of it. You just don’t know where it could lead.
Religion can always be attacked and usually courts do entertain such matters. We got lucky with it because when it went to the Telangana High Court, it was completely dismissed.”
On the legal challenges posed by RRR, she said,
Now the film is multilingual, so we’re selling in so many languages – Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. These are the big Indian languages, then there are smaller, lesser known languages. Then you do the world syndication, for the Middle East, subtitles for English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and then you have to make sure the the languages don’t spill over, because piracy is a very big issue globally. The film releases at different points of time in different territories. Since we are selling the film we always have to ensure that it doesn’t spill over in the territories where it is sold. No producer pirates their own film. Overall we must have done 500-600 agreements for the film. So it was a very exhaustive process in that sense.”
Source: Barandbench
