RG Anand v. Delux Films, (AIR 1978 SC 1613) is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of India in the area of copyright law.

The case deals with a copyright infringement suit against the movie New Delhi made by Mohan Sehgal in 1954.

Anand, contended that it was modeled on the plot of a play Hum Hindustani written and produced by him.

In 1954, the defendant Mohan Sehgal sent a letter to the plaintiff that he wishes to make a movie based on the play.

For a dramatic work, making an adaptation is a statutory right provided under Section 14 (a)(vi) of the Copyright Act, 1957.

In another scene, the parents are distraught to find the note and regret their aversion to inter-community marriage but at the same time the married couple enters.

Anand, a graduate comes from Punjab to Delhi and meets Janaki, a Madrasi girl on the railway station.

Next day, he plans a date with Janaki but realizes that his father and sister are arriving in town.

He goes out on the pretext of showing the city to his sister Nikki and meets an acquaintance Ashok Banerjee, a Bengali painter there.

He takes her to Anand's father's house where she pretends to be a Punjabi girl and the proposal for marriage is accepted.

Justice Pathak in his concurring opinion said "[t]he story portrayed by the film travels beyond the plot delineated in the play."

For future cases, he opined that "[i]n another, and perhaps a clearer case, it may be necessary for this Court to interfere and remove the impression which may have gained ground that the copyright belonging to an author can be readily infringed by making immaterial changes, introducing insubstantial differences and enlarging the scope of the original theme so that a veil of apparent dissimilarity is thrown around the work now produced.

The court will look strictly at not only blatant examples of copying but also at reprehensible attempts at colourable limitation."

(Para 72) This judgement is considered as a landmark decision in the area of Indian copyright law.