Kesari Chapter 2 faced a plagiarism controversy when poet Yahya Bootwala accused the makers of copying lines from his poem about Jallianwala Bagh. However, Bootwala later announced on Instagram that the issue was resolved amicably between both parties.
A few days after the release of Kesari Chapter 2, the film got embroiled in a plagiarism controversy. Starring Akshay Kumar, R Madhavan and Ananya Panday in lead roles, YouTuber and poet Yahya Bootwala has accused the film’s makers of copying lines from his original poem about Jallianwala Bagh without permission. Now, he has revealed that the problem is solved.
Taking to his Instagram handle, Yahya updated his fans that the controversy is resolved now. He wrote, “So dosto, the producers and I have managed to amicably solve the issue in the best interest of both parties. Thank you guys for your support in these 2 days, you guys have been very kind.”
Earlier, Bootwala posted a video comparing his poem performance with a scene from the film where Ananya Panday says very similar lines. In his Instagram post, he also called out the film’s dialogue writer, Sumit Saxena, accusing him of stealing his work.
He wrote, “So @nisoooooooooorg sent me a clip 4 days back from the movie Kesari 2 of dialogues he felt were copied from my poem, titled Jallianwala Bagh, published 5 years ago on @unerasepoetry YouTube channel. Here are the two clips and honestly, this is a clear copy-paste and it’s not like they’ve tried to hide it as well, matlab phusphusana jaisa shabd bhi uthaya hai (They have even lifted words like phusphasana). As writers, the worst thing you can do to a fellow writer is pick their material up, blatantly use it without giving credits, and this is what I feel dialogue writer @sumit.saxena.35912 has done here.”