Verma in legal tangle

Nishabd is said to be unlike anything that Ram Gopal Verma has done in the past.The man has a reputation of making gangster films, from Company to D and he also has a reputation of getting into trouble because of his films.With Nishabd, it's the title that's got him on his toes. Trouble in the Verma camp started last October when Sippy films, which holds rights to the old story Sholay, got an injunction against Verma and his company Ke Sara Sara.The Sippys and Verma met each other in the High Court over the appropriation dispute of the film and the director is still waiting to see if the High Court settlement will allow Sholay to be remade as its 1975 version. The Sippys sought a ban on the use of the words Sholay and Gabbar and over Rs 1 crore in damages from Verma for infringement of copyright and trademark, passing off the new film as Sholay and merchandising the character Gabbar Singh.And before the Sholay matter could be sorted out, the filmmaker has received another High Court notice, this time for the use of title name Nishabd.Bengali filmmaker Jahanir Kaugo said his film titled Nishabd won the Cinemaya award in 2004.Seems like this spate of court notices has left Ram Gopal Verma speechless too.