A court in New Delhi, India, has dismissed the studio's legal action aiming to halt the release of Bollywood's Hari Puttar—A Comedy of Terrors over fears the name too closely resembles Warners' blockbuster franchise.
Muggles are apparently bright enough to tell the difference between Harry Potter and Hari Puttar—no matter what Warner Bros. believes.
In fact, Puttar's plot is more John Hughes than J.K. Rowling. Set in England, the film tells the tale of a 10-year-old Indian boy who, à la Macaulay Culkin, is left home alone by his parents and must guard his scientist dad's top-secret computer chip against a pair of inept thieves.
The decision now clears the way for the film to premiere in Mumbai on Wednesday and open wide across the subcontinent this Friday.
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