Director Sujeeth claimed Saaho as his brainchild, but it is clear that he was heavily inspired by French action film Largo Winch.
Interestingly, Trivikram's disastrous Agnyathavaasi was also based on the same film. Sujeeth went ahead with his inspired version in spite of seeing the fate of Trivikram's film.
While Saaho is receiving flak as well as setting box office on fire at the same time, the director of Largo Winch took to Twitter to respond on his work being 'copied' by an Indian director for the second time.
"It seems this second "freemake" of Largo Winch is as bad as the first one. So please Telugu directors, if you steal my work, at least do it properly? And as my "Indian career" tweet was of course ironic, I'm sorry but I'm not gonna be able to help. (sic)" tweeted Jerome Salle, the director of the French film Largo Winch.
It seems this second "freemake" of Largo Winch is as bad as the first one. So please Telugu directors, if you steal my work, at least do it properly?
— Jérôme Salle (@Jerome_Salle) September 1, 2019
And as my "Indian career" tweet was of course ironic, I'm sorry but I'm not gonna be able to help. https://t.co/DWpQJ8Vyi0
Before that he responded "I think I have a promising career in India," when one of Saaho audience tweeted him about the Largo Winch inspiration in Saaho.
