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On Wednesday, filmmaker Shirish Kunder released his much-anticipated short film, Kriti. Available on YouTube, the psychological thriller has received close to a million hits. The response has been mixed but the performances by Manoj Bajpayee, Radhika Apte and Neha Sharma, have been widely appreciated.
However, even as social media was buzzing with reactions to Kriti on Thursday, a Facebook post by Aneel Neupane, a filmmaker from Nepal, went viral. In his post, Neupane admitted that he had been looking forward to the film ever since he heard about it but once he watched it, Neupane claims, he found uncanny similarities between Kunder’s film and the technical details and plot of his own short, titled BOB.
For instance, the opening sequence of both the films has the protagonist sitting across his psychiatrist, talking about a woman who seems to be imaginary. This forms the basic plot. There are also commonalities in the setting of both the films. “The film was ready in October 2015 and I uploaded it on Vimeo in January this year for a few people to watch before its release in May,” says Neupane.
However, Kunder has countered the claim by saying that his film was made in February 2016. “Aneel’s Vimeo link was available only to his close friends, and I don’t even know him. So how could I have copied it,” says Kunder.
Neupane, however, isn’t pursuing the matter any further as he has put out his film online, alongside Kriti, for people to view both and decide for themselves.
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