Bollywood's Biggest Controversies '10

and only King Khan, who played an autistic Muslim suffering discrimination in the United States after the 9/11 terror attacks. The controversy around this movie stemmed from Shahrukh's remark with regard to no Pakistani cricketers being chosen for the Indian Premier League in deliberate intention. It upset more than many Hindu bigots, the most prominent having been the Hindu Shiv Sena party. Shiv Sena was so upset about SRK's bold statement that they not only started protests but they also posed threats get Khan's movie My Name is Khan banned, or at the very least, sabotage its chances at BO by making halls showcasing it unsafe places to be. The release however was neither rescheduled neither truly hampered and the movie did exceedingly well in movie halls world wide.

November 19th 2010 was dragged into a copyright dispute with novelist, Dayanand Raajan filing a plagiarism complaint. The novelist accused the writers of the film of stealing the concept of his unpublished book, stating that the film's plot and characters bore a stark resemblance to those from his writing. Dayanand revealed that he had shared his story with many Bollywood personalities and he believes that the story must have been picked up by the writers of Guzaarish through common links.

revolved around Nana Patekar who apparently walked out on Jha and his project at one point leading to a pause in the shooting schedules. Then script writer Yogender Konkar accused Prakash of copying his script. And last but far from the least was the greatest controversy of all that surrounded the release of this political drama, which was Congress Party and many other political alliance leaders' unanimous resentment towards Katrina Kaif's character. Prior to the release, many believed that her character was based off Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi and was in a way derogatory of the senior leader's life. Jha and his team however held on to the fact firmly, that the resemblance was only a misconception in the minds of people, and that the character was not written off Mrs. Gandhi's real life.

Alls well that ends well!

and Aishwariya Rai Bachchan was a disappointment as opposed to all the hype that preceded its days in the halls, but who's to blame? Here's who!

heir common past may have posed trouble to their present. When young talent blaze DP was first contemplating signing up for her role in the recently released and successful so far Imran Khan co-starring Break Ke Baad, the actress had found obvious hesitance in saying yes to portraying a character that had reminded her so vividly of ex-beau Ranbir. In the movie, Deepika plays an aspiring actress who has dreams of flying high and major commitment issues in her personal love life - a character, that obviously bears much resemblance to the scenario she faced in real life with Ranbir during their affair. KJo, it is heard, had finally convinced the actress of putting personal matters behind for the spirit of professionalism, and despite all her skepticism for the role, she did end up doing justice for the character named Aliya, aka Al.

On July 13th, the Censor Board of Film Certification [CBFC] had viewed and cleared Akshay Kumar's KhattaMeetha. Soon after however, the film was targeted by animal rights protection NGOs who wished for the movie makers to take back the scene wherein an elephant was involved with the pulling of a road roller. Criticizing it on the grounds of animal cruelty, the justice seeking social workers demanded that CBFC order the film makers to delete the scene.

The Khan brothers' home production movie Dabangg's popular item number Munni Badnaam Hui had brought Emami, the Zandu Balm brand company knocking the doors of the filmmakers with a legal notice charged against the use of the balm's name without seeking due permission from their company.

Multistarrer film 'Golmaal 3' was frowned upon by  Dehradun-based The Indian Stammering Association (TISA). Apparently, TISA had sent a legal notice to Rohit Shetty and co. and demanded a cut on scenes that allude humor on account of stammering disability. In the movie, Shreyas Taplade plays Laxman who stammers and the characters of Tusshar Kapoor, Kunal Khemu and Arshad Warsi make fun of him throughout the whole movie.

Anjaana Anjaani ran into trouble when the first promotional posters of the movie that were released bore uncanny resemblance to last year's UK film, An Education, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Carey Mulligan. Because the poster with leads of Anjaana Anjaani Ranbir and Priyanka had the same pose in their first poster release for the movie, their were lodged complaints, and the matter became so big that the makers of the Bollywood film had to re shoot for the poster and release a new one - with due apologies.

Padukone ran into legal trouble on several fronts, all apparently dealing with copyright issues. First they were accused of failing to have acquired due permission from the makers and owners of yesteryear superhit Laawaris, to use its evergreen chartbuster, Apni To Jese Tese.  On this front, the Calcutta High Court forbade the movie team from using the song for cinematic purposes.

Additionally, Nadiwala and Khan were alleged of copying from Tamil movie Kadhala Khadhala which led its producer PL Thenappan to file complaint about the same with the Tamil Film Producers Council. The Tamil producer even revealed that Sajid Nadiawala had been in talks to acquire the remake rights to this same movie of his last year, but the deal had not been seen through on account of certain issues. However, when Houseful released, Thenappan found about 60% of the movie to be directly or indirectly inspired by his own. Meanwhile, the Bolly film makers claim that the story resembled the real life instance of Sania Mirza's marriage. The plot line was pretty basic. Akshay Kumar played the 'prince in distress' who wanted to marry Deepika wherein Jiah Khan's character comes to play claiming being already married to Akshay.