a week after kerala state film awards were announced pk sreenivasan a friend of playwright indira parthasarathy has accused the makers of vasanthi which won the best film award of plagiarismthe film directed by rahman brothers shinos and sajas won three kerala state film awards this year with swasika bagging the best character actress award and the rahman brothers winning the honours for best film and best screenplay the makers had earlier told us that the movie is inspired from indira parthasarathys play poovai porthiya udalgal pk sreenivasan in his post wrote indira parthasarathy who is 91 years old now has no idea about his play being adapted to a movie and it isnt fair when contacted shinos explained that one should only make such claims after watching the movie it was us who revealed that vasanthi evolved from the thoughts we had after translating indira parthasarathys play into malayalam for our work except for a few of our friends censor board members the jury members of kerala state film awards and the audience of a film festival in thrissur no one else has seen the movie he says every writer and maker would been influenced by what they read and write its the same in our case but the film is an original screenplay and not an adaptationvasanthi according to sajas is a journey of a woman who travels through the lives of many men at different points of her life the making style of the movie that has a play as an important aspect is experimental this is our second film our first movie kalipattam was made in 2015 we began vasanthi with the funds we got from that movie later siju wilson turned producer for the film we are really happy about our movie being recognised he had told us soon after the movie won the awards