Mollywood’s latest box office hit, Thudarum, starring Mohanlal, has found itself in the middle of a controversy that has set social media buzzing. The film, which recently cemented its status as the third-highest-grossing Malayalam film ever, is now being questioned for authenticity as filmmaker, Sanal Kumar Sasidharan called it out for plagiarising the plot of one of his shelved projects.
Sanal accuses Thudarum of script theft, plans to release the original screenplay
While Mohanlal-starrer Thudarum broke box office records and became one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films on a global scale, it came as a shock when poet and filmmaker, Sanal Kumar Sasidharan slammed the makers for stealing his content. Taking to Facebook, Sanal shared a strongly worded post claiming that Thudarum, directed by Tharun Moorthy and starring Mohanlal and Shobana, borrowed the ‘skeleton’ of his 2020 script, Theeyattam. The filmmaker wrote:
“I saw the movie Thudarum. It’s made by stealing the skeleton of my screenplay, Theeyattam, which I wrote in 2020. The core of it, however, remains safe; either because they (the makers of the Mohanlal-starrer) lacked the intelligence to understand its essence, or because they deliberately avoided it in their attempt to rewrite it unrecognisably.”