A Peruvian writer filed a lawsuit against media industry powerhouse Disney, claiming that the animate blockbuster "Frozen" was based on her own life story. She is seeking $250 million in damages.

New Jersey-based Isabella Tanikumi said in her complaint that parts of her memoirs in "Living My Truth" and "Yearnings of the Heart" were plagiarized in 18 unique instances to create the story of princesses Elsa and Anna. Tanikumi wrote these novels about her childhood life growing up in the Peruvian Andes.

"Frozen," which debuted just before Christmas, drew $1.2 billion in box office sales and was largely thought to be based on the 1844 Hans Christian Andersen fairytale The Snow Queen. Yet "Frozen" producer Peter Del Vecho said the original material sources were only loosely used to create the storyline.

"Hans Christian Andersen's original version of The Snow Queen is a pretty dark tale and it doesn't translate easily into a film," Del Vecho said to Bleeding Cool last year. "For us the breakthrough came when we tried to give really human qualities to the Snow Queen. When we decided to make the Snow Queen Elsa and our protagonist Anna sisters, that gave a way to relate to the characters in a way that conveyed what each was going through and that would relate for today's audiences."

And if Tanikumi's argument is read thoroughly, there seem to be several overlaps between the film and her books. The suit, filed in the US federal district court in New Jersey, details how both film and memoirs feature loving sisters who live in an area at the foot of snow-covered mountains. Beyond that, one sister causes injury to the other and hides from public attention out of shame and fear. Even one sister has romantic suitors named Hans and Cristoff in the memoirs and Anna in "Frozen" is torn between her attachments to Hans and Kristoff.

Disney has not yet commented publicly on the lawsuit.