chennai a court in chennai on friday ordered notices on a petition that alleged that the scriptwriter of rajinikanthstarrer lingaa had stolen the storyline of a junior writer the petitioner p sakthivel said he was a junior writer in the tamil film industry and had written a script tiled uyir anai based on the life story of john pennycuick who in 19th century constructed the mullaperiyar dam the scriptwriter of lingaa cunningly misused the uyir annai script and gave it to the director sakthivel said i registered his script with film and television producers guild of south india in 2012 he wanted the producers to be restrained from releasing the film on december 12 the court ordered notices to the producer and director and adjourned the case to december 9 on wednesday the madurai bench of the madras high court dismissed a petition that sought a stay on the release of lingaa in his petition filmmaker ravi rathinam alleged that the story line of lingaa was similar to that of his 2013 film mullai vanam 999 the movie starring rajinikanth sonakshi sinha and anushka shetty is set to hit the screens on december 12