Ram Gopal Varma has been booked for obscenity over his film God, Sex and Truth with porn star Mia Malkova. A complaint has been filed by social activist Devi, reported The Indian Express.
Devi, in her complaint, opposed against the movie’s release as it deliberately tries to picture women as an object of sex and the film promotes pornography.
The case has been registered under the Section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000. It is also reported that Ram Gopal Varma has passed defamatory comments against Devi and other women who filled the case against him. The filmmaker has also been charged under the Sections of 508 and 509 of Indian Penal Code for an offensive remark against the dignity of women, reported The Times Of India.
It was previously reported that the Hyderabad civil court issued a notice to Ram Gopal Varma on a plagiarism case filed by writer Jaya Kumar. In his plea, Jaya Kumar claims that he had sought RGV’s opinion on the script of God Sex and Truth and after watching the film’s trailer and Mia Malkova words, he approached the court. After the plagiarism allegations came to light, RGV responded on Twitter dismissing the claims.
Someone educate this illiterate @RGVzoomin that copyright is one’s right to create, own and distribute an original work as own. RGV’s not monetizing my content doesn’t give him the right to copy it for his purposes whether it involves monetization or not.
— P Jaya Kumar (@iampjayakumar) January 17, 2018
With regard to fraudulent claims on the script of #GodSexTruth https://t.co/FmLHIm33Hr will also send proof of the real reason behind him being given credit in my previous film
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) January 25, 2018
With regard to his credit in Sarkar 3 these WhatsApp chats between me and Jai will tell truth behind
NOTE THAT HE DIDN’T DENY A SINGLE THING OF WHATEVER I SAID IN THOSE MESSAGES pic.twitter.com/5zdL9EgXyi
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) January 25, 2018
Prior to the release of the movie, RGV had defended the subject and said that sex is not something to hide under the bed. In the film, Mia Malkova talks about a woman’s freedom to explore her sexuality.
