NEW DELHI: Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has formally terminated a memorandum of understanding with Supercassettes Industries (T-Series) for audio and home video rights of 14 feature films including Sarkar Raj and Ramgopal Varma ki Aag.

In a statement, Varma said he had informed Supercassettes Industries through a termination notice dated 14 November "with immediate effect for breach of various provisions" of the MoU of June last year.

He said there had been "consistent and continuing non-performance of promises and obligations by Supercassettes (T-Series)."

T-Series executives did not want to comment on the issue.

Referring in the same notice to the claims by K Sera Sera that they own the concept of Sarkar, Varma said the Sarkar concept and story was and continued to belong to him as the original author of the story, and there were documents to prove this."

Varma added that the film Sarkar Raj was an independent movie. He further said that K Sera Sera had, after his dissociation with them, specifically acknowledged and submitted before the Bombay High Court that they were aware of the fact that he was making Sarkar 2.