New Delhi: With the Delhi-based sweet shop ‘Ghantewala’ sending a legal notice to the producers and King Khan for allegedly using its brand name without permission in his starrer ‘Fan’, it looks like trouble will never leave SRK movies.
In one of the scenes in the film ‘Fan’, Shah Rukh Khan’s character Gaurav Chandna, takes a box of sweets from Delhi’s ‘Ghantewala sweet shop’ when he goes to Mumbai to visit his favorite actor Aryan Khanna. In a later scene, the box of sweets falls on the ground in the commotion outside the actor’s residence.
According to a report in Indian Express, the owner of the sweet shop, Sushant Jain, has sent a legal notice to Yash Raj Films, Aditya Chopra, director Maneesh Sharma, writers Habib Faisal and Sharat Katariya, and Shah Rukh Khan. He has filed a compalint and asked them to remove the dialogues and scenes that “infringe the trademark” of the shop.
This shop has been running in Old Delhi since 1790. According to the notice sent through advocate Ankit Sahni, the filmmakers are asked to remove all remarks to the shop.
Jain has alleged that the filmmakers have used the name ‘Ghantewala sweets’, “without seeking the consent, permission and/or license of our client which makes it infringement of trademark.”
“Our client is perhaps a one-of-a-kind business that has, over the past more than 225 years of its existence, witnessed history unfold before itself and has been instrumental in its own way in shaping it..,” stated the notice.
“Such act of deliberate infringement, you are attempting to misrepresent and deceive the public at large into believing that your said feature film titled “FAN” enjoys the patronage, sponsorship and endorsement of our clients, and/or that such use as is described above in your said feature film is under license from our client, which facts are neither true nor correct. In fact, it is our client’s wish that our client does not want to have any association with you, your feature film and/or its consequent success or failure,” the notice added.
