NEW YORK: Netflix Inc. was accused by an Indian filmmaker of copying his 2009 movie for its popular Squid Game series as the company prepares to release the second season of the show later this year.
The filmmaker, Soham Shah, sued Netflix in federal court in New York on Friday (Sept 13), alleging that the show is a "blatant rip-off” of his Hindi-language film Luck, which tells the story of a "group of desperate, indebted people enticed to take part in a series of competitive games to win large sums of money” who later learn that losing the contests means death.
