Pankaj Tripathi is on a cloud nine these days. His latest film Newton has not only received rave reviews from the critics but also has been earning fair amount of money at the box office. The icing on the cake was when the film was selected as India’s official entry for Oscars. It was this selection that sort of helped the film in a big way, so much so that, despite lesser number of screens, it went on to beat the likes of Sanjay Dutt’s Bhoomi and Shraddha Kapoor’s Haseena Parkar. But the excitement of the team Newton, specifically for its Oscars entry was short lived as the film was accused of plagiarism and many claimed that it is a copy of acclaimed Iranian film Secret Ballot. However,...
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