After Maria Susairaj, former naval officer Emile Jerome has now sent a legal notice to Ram Gopal Varma demanding that the filmmaker’s forthcoming film cannot be released without his consent. Emile Jerome says in the notice that he fears that the film might be biased against him.
Emile Jerome and Maria Susairaj have been convicted of murdering Neeraj Grover. Emile is serving a 10-year prison term for ‘culpable homicide not amounting to murder’. Maria has been released from prison since she has already served three years for criminal conspiracy during trial.
Both Maria and Jerome claim that the forthcoming Ram Gopal Varma film (titled Not a Love Story) cannot be released without their consent since Not A Love Story is based on the Neeraj Grover murder case.
According to the legal notice, Jerome wants Varma to get his approval before the film’s release. Maria has made a similar demand in her legal notice that was sent to Varma two days ago.
Varma says that he would neither show the film to them nor take their consent as his film is just inspired from the case.
“After Maria, I have received a similar legal notice from Emile Jerome and he has asked me to stop the release of the film. He has demanded that I seek his consent before the release of the film. I am not going to halt the film’s release at any cost. There’s no question of showing the film to either of them,” says Varma.
The film starring Mahie Gill, Deepak Dobriyal and Ajay Gehi in pivotal roles, releases on August 19.
Varma adds that though the central plot of the film is similar to the case, it is just ‘inspired’ from the case and hence he has no legal responsibility to Jerome or Maria.
“My heroine is not a South Indian actress and her fiancee is not in Navy as in real case. Also, the film is just an interpretation of what could have happened and not a reporting on what actually happened. No one was there to know what the reality is. This is not his (Jerome’s) story and I am not showing the film to her," he said.
