WTF! Shirish Kunder has copied short film Kriti from Aneel Neupane’s BOB! Watch both films here!

Filmmaker alleges Shirish Kunder has copied his short film Kriti scene-by-scene and even the dialogues!

Updated: June 24, 2016 1:49 PM IST

By Shweta Parande

WTF! Shirish Kunder has copied short film Kriti from Aneel Neupane's BOB! Watch both films here!

What the holy f**k! Director Shirish Kunder seems to have copied his short film Kriti from Aneel Neupane’s film BOB! The Nepali filmmaker has written a Facebook post in which he explains how his film was copied by Shirish. Kriti was released with much fanfare in the presence of Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, who hailed the digital medium. We share Aneel’s Facebook post with you here, after having a chat with him. When we asked Aneel if Kriti and Bon were the same, he said, “Yes, the plot is same, the characters are basically the same.. most frames are copied, dialogues even.” When we told him about Shirish, he said, “Thank you! I didn’t know he is the husband of Farah Khan. Even more disappointed now.”

Here’s what he said in his long Facebook post: “My name is Aneel Neupane and I’m a filmmaker. My team at Jazz Productions and I worked super hard to make our latest release BOB. We gave our blood and sweat to this project. We had a super hard time finding anyone to fund this project, so we pleaded our friend Tejaswee Rajthala (Jazz Productions Australia) to invest and he did. But We were constrained by the budget limitation of NRS. 50,000 (32,000 Indian Rupees). It was not a lot to go on with, but I’m personally super grateful to the whole cast and crew for believing in the story, volunteering and making it possible to create this film in that limited budget. We had the film ready in October 2015.”

The filmmaker adds, “I had uploaded it on Vimeo as a private video to share it with close friends. You can see here (https://vimeo.com/145062291) that the video is 7 months old. We finally released it on youtube on May 12, 2016. As of right now, there are 3033 views. Although that’s not a lot of views, I have been getting a lot of messages and amazing feedback from so many people! Thank you all for appreciating BOB. Your response made me feel like all the effort and sleepless nights were worth it. However! (Plot twist here) Yesterday (June 23, 2016), I woke up to find Kriti (http://bit.ly/28RiRXB) on youtube.”

The Nepali director was shocked to find a frame-by-frame copy of his film in Kriti. He added on Facebook, “Initially, I thought maybe the first few frames, the setting and characters resembled BOB. I thought it was just a co-incidence. I was actually excited to watch a short film starring Mr. Manoj Bajpayee (A great actor whom I admire a lot!) and Neha sharma (whom I’ve had a HUGE crush on ever since I saw her in the movie Crook).”

“As the movie progressed, I was shocked to find so much similarities. Now, I have no idea how to go about on this. I’m angry not because Mr. Shirish Kunder practically stole the plot and made it into his film. I’m angry because We didn’t even have lunch money while shooting BOB, and a spot boy for Kriti probably made more money than BOB’s entire budget. My team and I didn’t work our asses off just so some rich dude from India could turn it into this and get away with it. That’s just not fair. On the plus side: In today’s Movie Industry, so many Nepali films are being made that are “inspired” from Bollywood. It feels like most Nepali Filmmakers just sit and watch of a couple Bollywood movies and mix the plot together to make one crappy Nepali film. And my film was able to inspire A-Class Bollywood actors and filmmakers. I think that’s a win for Nepal. It’s nice to know that a smalltime rookie filmmaker from Nepal was able to inspire Big Time director and actors in Bollywood. Now, honestly, I’m clueless as to what I have to do next. If I take the fight to them, I don’t think I’m equipped financially or otherwise. It would just be a tiny voice screaming from far away for them. And a lot of people told me that they will just get away with it as they have by ripping off of numerous other films from all over the world. It would be nice if you guys would help report the video on youtube. Thanks.”

BOB is a film described as: A psychiatrist is trying to help a young schizophrenic patient win over his imagination with some rather unconventional methods. Watch BOB and Kriti here and tell us if you find them similar or not!

Kriti

Now, Shirish is a good editor and was a promising filmmaker who has made a few feature films without any box office hit. But his ideas were rad. And even his tweets and Facebook posts are witty and often funny one-liners, laced with sarcasm. For a filmmaker like that, to copy a short film scene-by-scene is really weird!

And what was Farah Khan, his very successful filmmaker-choreographer wife, doing when he made Kriti? We guess she was too busy taking care of their three little kids and so did not have any time to figure out the references of her husband’s movie (short film at that).

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