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Mangal Pandey was not a freedom fighter: Yash Chopra
21st Sept 2005 14.03 IST
By Agencies

Producer-Director Yash Chopra today claimed that Mangal Pandey was not a freedom fighter and questioned the authenticity of descendants of the 1857 hero who have filed a suit for showing him in poor light in the film featuring Aamir Khan .

During a hearing of the case in Delhi High Court, Mukul Rohtagi, the counsel for Chopra, who is distributor of 'Mangal Pandey: The Rising ', questioned the authenticity of plaintiff duo's claim that they were descendents of Pandey and said he was not a freedom fighter.

Chopra's contention was refuted by the plaintiffs' counsel Hari who showed a postal stamp issued in the name of Mangal Pandey by the Government of India in which he has been described as a freedom fighter.

Hearing the case, Justice O P Dwivedi adjourned the matter for November 8 as none of the defendants except Chopra had filed his reply to the suit.

The court asked all other defendants to file their replies within two weeks and gave two more weeks to the plaintiffs to file their rejoinder.

He, however, refused to pass any interim orders to stop the screening of the film despite repeated requests from the plaintiffs' lawyer saying "I will decide the issue finally."

Justice Dwivedi had earlier issued notices to the film's joint producers Bobby Bedi and Deepa Sahi, director Ketan Mehta , story writer Farooq Dhondy, distributor Chopra, Aamir and actress Rani Mukherjee asking them to file their replies by today.

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