An Artist claims that Prabhas and Kriti Sanon-starrer Adipurush has plagiarised his artwork and didn’t give him any compensation.
Prabhas looks copied?
Om Raut’s Adipurush met with criticism last year when the teaser of the film was released. Fans slammed the CGI and VFX in the teaser and the makers chose to delay the release of the film to make some additional modifications. Now, an artist has claimed that the team has copied his artwork without notifying or giving due credit to him, using it to mold the look of Prabhas in the film.
On Sunday, Pratik Sanghar, an independent artist, uploaded screenshots of his work on Reddit along with a Facebook post from someone claiming to be the movie’s designer.
The Facebook post, made by one T P Vijayan, was shared last October on Prabhas’ birthday. It has an artwork nearly similar to the one shared by Sanghar and the caption read, “A Very Happy Birthday to our #Raghava, Prabhas Garu!!! Here’s the Exclusive Official Look Development Art made by me for the film, Adipurush Raghava Look, Development Art. This is the look development artwork which I have created #Prabhas as Raghava with a completely raw and rugged appearance, with a burnt saffron-colored dhoti embellished with garlands of dried blueberry seeds, a wooden quiver filled with kodanda arrows, triceps bound with talismans and feet with wooden padukas.”
The striking similarities
Informing about the similarities and making a side-by-side comparison of the Facebook post and his original artwork from last year, Sanghar wrote, “I am a concept artist from India. I made my exploration for Lord Shri Ram’s possible looks for a Ramayan Epic if it were ever to be made. This was around a year ago. And the official concept artist working on Adipurush literally stole my artwork mix matched it with my similar artwork and called it their own that too without informing me or providing me any compensation. This is one of the reasons for the failure of such a project. People working on it have no passion or love for the project instead they are finding and using cheap tricks to make this project.”
Adipurush Team plagiarized my artwork without informimg Or compensating me.
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Adding that he would share links to both posts, Sanghar said he had screenshots because he believed the post would be taken down after his. “They are stealing and exploiting artists,” he added.
Meanwhile, Netizens came in support of the artist. One of them wrote, “So Sorry! I hope the team properly credits you for your excellent work.” Another wrote, “OMG this is horrible.”
However, a few did mention that TP Vijayan was most likely an independent creator and not associated with the film. They argued that no official page associated with Adipurush or Prabhas has shared these artworks.
“It doesn’t look like TP Vijayan is in any way associated with Adipurush. Seems more like an individual trying to associate himself with a project for obvious reasons,” read one comment. So far, neither TP Vijayan nor the team of Adipurush has responded to the allegations.
Directed by Om Raut, Adipurush is produced by Bhushan Kumar, Rajesh Mohanan, and Krishan Kumar. The film also features Sunny Singh, Sonal Chauhan, and Devdata Nage among others in key roles. The film was supposed to release in January this year but is now scheduled to release on June 16, 2023.
