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Netflix Sued Over ‘Squid Sport’ for Allegedly Ripping Off Indian Film

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The Netflix money cow “Squid Game” is a blatant ripoff of a film that was launched greater than a decade earlier in India … at the very least in keeping with a brand new lawsuit.

Netflix is being sued by a person named Soham Shah, who claims he’s the creator of the 2009 Hindi-language Indian movie “Luck” … which he says served as a blueprint for the hit 2021 streaming sequence “Squid Game.”

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In keeping with the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, the “Squid Game” franchise straight-up jacked the storyline from Shah’s film … as a result of “Luck” is a narrative a few group of determined, indebted individuals enticed to participate in a sequence of aggressive video games for the possibility to win giant sums of cash.


Shah says in “Luck,” it is solely after characters begin competing that they notice dropping any of the challenges means dying — and that the dying of a fellow participant additionally will increase the pot of cash out there to the remaining contestants.

Within the paperwork, Shah says his “Luck” story additionally options rich onlookers playing on the gamers and reveling within the high-stakes competitors … whereas the individuals themselves wrestle to remain alive, and grapple with their very own morality below excessive circumstances.

For anybody who has seen “Squid Game” … this sounds quite a bit like the identical plot.


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Factor is … Shah claims he wrote his story in or round 2006 … and he says in July 2009 the film model was launched worldwide in theaters in India, the UK, the US and the UAE.

Shah says “Squid Game” author Hwang Dong-hyuk, who can be being sued, claimed to have first written his story in 2009 … the identical yr “Luck” was launched in theaters.

Shah claims Netflix had entry to seeing “Luck” on the time, because of its “considerable advertising and marketing” … so he thinks it is no shock they ended up producing “Squid Game” in 2018 or 2019.

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Netflix, Shah claims, says the corporate’s market worth elevated by over $900 million because of “Squid Game,” its most-watched present … and Shah’s going after the streaming large for a slice of the pie — and desires to dam Netflix from infringing his “Luck” copyright.

We reached out to Netflix … thus far no phrase again.

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