Sridevi Bungalow: Boney Kapoor slaps legal notice on film

Priya Prakash Varrier, the young Malayalam film actress who went viral on the Internet last year with her wink and eyebrow game, is back in the news. Priya is all set to foray into Bollywood films with director Prasanth Mambully’s Sridevi Bungalow. The official teaser of the film dropped online on Sunday.

If the 1-minute 49-seconds long clip is anything to go by, the film is trying to cash in on Sridevi’s death. The veteran actress died last year after accidentally drowning in a bathtub in a Dubai hotel. In the film, Priya plays the character of a lonely actress, who dies in a fashion eerily similar to that of Sridevi.

Sridevi’s husband and filmmaker Boney Kapoor has sent a legal notice to the makers. Confirming the same to an online portal, Mambully said, “We received a legal notice from Mr Boney Kapoor last week. And we will face it. My film is a suspense thriller. I told him (Boney Kapoor) that Sridevi is a common name. My film’s character also happens to be an actress. We will face it.”

Priya, on the other hand, has neither accepted nor denied whether the film is based on the life of Sridevi. Her father Prakash, too, refused to make any comment and said that it was for director and the producers to address. (Sridevi Bungalow teaser: Is Priya Prakash Varrier's Bollywood debut a take on late Sridevi's life? Watch video)

Watch the Sridevi Bungalow teaser below:

Quite recently, Priya’s selfies with Bollywood actors Ranveer Singh and Vicky Kaushal – both of whom will star together in Karan Johar’s Takht – went viral on the web. It sparked rumours that she has been cast for the historical drama.

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