Hollywood producers behind the film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" are now threatening Bollywood filmmakers with legal action over their plans to remake Brad Pitt's Oscar-winner movie.

Last month the Times of Indian reported that Bollywood actors Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai were set to star in a film eerily similar to Benjamin Button called "Action Replay." In 2008, Pitt starred alongside Cate Blanchett in the film, which is about a man who ages backwards.

On Monday Warner Brothers and Paramount producers placed advertisements in the paper and local trade publications warning Bollywood filmmakers not to go ahead with a planned Hindi remake. Representing Warner Bros. is a New Dehli law firm who will see legal action against any film made "either in English or Hindi or other language, having a similar script, screenplay or story line or character sketches or interplay of characters or sequence of events" to the original movie.