'Hichki' director Siddharth P Malhotra rubbishes plagiarism allegations by Nishant Kaushik

Bollywood actress Rani Mukerji is all set to make her comeback to the silver screen with her upcoming film 'Hichki', helmed by director Siddharth P Malhotra. As soon as the trailer for the film was released, Nishant Kaushik, a Melbourne-based writer and author claimed that the film had ideas that were taken from his book. Here's what the author tweeted:



Siddharth on Wednesday vehemently denied the claims and termed them as baseless. He also added that he had bagged the official rights of the novel 'Front of the Class' on which the movie is based and claimed that the team has credited all the writers who have contributed to the film.

"I had acquired the rights to make 'Front of the Class' as a Hindi motion picture in 2013. Nishant Kaushik's claims are baseless. He was contacted through a production house and I haven't even met him once. We were looking for writers who could come up with a take on the 'Front of the Class'. We had approached several writers including Nishant," he said.

"This was, 2015. Several prominent writers like Amole Gupte, Abbas Tyrewala have worked on the story of 'Hichki' and we have obtained NOCs from them and I thank each one of them for being the creative contributors of 'Hichki'. We have credited all the writers who have worked in our film. So, it is ridiculous that we will not give credit to anyone in particular who has worked hard and contributed for 'Hichki'," he added.

The film is slated to release on February 23 next year. Stay tuned for more updates.

Credits: DNA