The Release:
I remember watching a short film "Bob" back in May 2016. It was a schizophrenic flick, exactly the type I love to watch. The film was very intensely directed and beautifully scripted. I thought this movie must have been made by some student from psychological stream, maybe ass a class project. The film was very apposite and of course cerebral. I loved it and even shared the link with some of my friends who share my interest.
After about a month, in June 2016, one of my friend Sangat, posted in Facebook about how the plot of Bob was copied by an Indian short film called Kriti released in YouTube in June 2016. I instantly checked out Kriti and was stunned at what I saw. "Kriti" that starred renowned actors like Manoj Bajpayee, Radhika Apte and Neha Sharma was a modified version of short movie "Bob". They had completely copied the main plot of "Bob" and made some minor changes at the end and had made a copy. I soon circulated the new video "Kriti" with my friends and everyone agreed that, Kriti was a crappy copy of "Bob". One of my friend pointed that even the poster was copied from a Japanese movie. I remember laughing at Shirish Kundar that he is not only bad at making movies, he is awful at copying too.
Plot:
BOB
The film starts with a boy attending the regular session with a psychiatrist where he talks about his life, friends and family. There are sounds in the background that the boy's brain is creating and asking him to do things. His thoughts are divided between the psychiatrist's suggestions and the voices' demand. He talks about a girl who he likes being with but is confused if she really exists. He has lost his pace with the reality and his mind cannot decide which is real and which is his imagination. After the proper diagnose, the psychiatrist confirms his lady friend to be a fragment of his imagination as the name of the lady "Maina" matches with his mother's name, "Meena". The voices in his brain urges him to kill the imagination, that is to kill the girl. And at the ending scene when the boy is taking the girl with him with an intention to end it all for good, few boys from the street comment on the ability of the boy to find such a catch . Yes, the girl is real.
The movie ends here, but we all can guess what happens next.
Kriti
The film starts with a man (Manoj Bajpayee) visiting an old friend and psychiatrist (Radhika Apte) where he talks about his life and girlfriends. He says that he met a girl "Rachana" (Neha Sharma) who is a writer and very coy around people. But they both liked each other's company and they started living together. He says that Rachana stays in her room all day, doesn't use any social sites and doesn't like taking photos. After listening to him the psychiatrist tells him that this Rachana was just a fragment of his imagination. He denies the fact and leaves. After reaching home he tries to show Rachana to the psychiatrist through a video call but the psychiatrist holds that she cannot see anything and Rachana was just an imagination. He gets furious and tries to force Rachana out of the house to the public which she denies and screams and struggles to avoid it. He is finally convinced that she is not real and he kills her. Next morning police officers appear in his house and finds the body of the girl. Yes, the girl was real.
The movie ends with the police taking him in custody.
Controversy
After release of "Kriti" the news of it being copied from Nepali short film "Bob" started getting shape. It was the first time this kind of case had come up. Aneel, the director of "Bob" came forward and posted the issue of the copyright violation in his Facebook page. Soon it was all over social media and finally reached the makers of "Kriti". The director of "Kriti", Sirish Kundar reacted hastily in this issue fueling it for further controversy. He urged that his script was somehow leaked and found by Aneel who made the movie just for the controversy and to gain fame. And what happened next was what always happens, the Nepali people stood united and it grew to be a national issue; #KritiStoleBob went viral and people from both Nepal and India supported the cause and presented their view. "Kriti" was finally removed from YouTube as copyright violation and sadly "Bob" was too.
BUT
It doesn't end here. Shirish Kunder and Manoj Bajpayee with their lawyers go for a press conference to clown themselves. Manoj Bajpayee claims that the idea of "Kriti" was born last year during Eid in Shirish's house and he had urged Shirish to make the film. He targets Aneel to be a fraud and accuse of playing a sympathy card of being poor. He with Shirish tries to establish the fact that Aneel (as per Shrisih Kunder- "koi saadi ka video banane wala") somehow got his hands in their script and made a video with his handicam in an hour and posted in Vimeo. When asked that the video was posted in Vimeo in October 2015, his lawyer claims that due to some defects in the Vimeo software, the publish dates can be manipulated. They even claim to prove that and gets a bored and funny looking guy in front of camera who stands below a big screen and says that if the old video is replaced by new the date remains the same. Seriously! And they are claiming that they are doing a big favor to all movie industry with that reveal.
But even after his all research in flaws of internet, Shirish Kunder forgets the fact that "Bob" was released earlier in YouTube than "Kriti", and no one points that out. Ah so honest!
Shirish Kunder blames 3 people for whole controversy. First, all the Nepali citizen, second the social media trolls and the third their own media. As they have no way to convince the first two, they seem to be trying to convince their own media by pleading to support them.
The makers of "Kriti" are seemed to be defending themselves as being truthful pointing out the fact that the makers of "Bob" are not responding to their notice. They do not intend to go for any legal solutions as they believe that this is Aneel's case to prove them fraud and they will go to court only if dragged. I hope Aneel and the makers of "Bob" respond to the notice and go for legal action with sufficient proof. And as for us, we Nepali people shall always support and stand for the cause.
I remember watching a short film "Bob" back in May 2016. It was a schizophrenic flick, exactly the type I love to watch. The film was very intensely directed and beautifully scripted. I thought this movie must have been made by some student from psychological stream, maybe ass a class project. The film was very apposite and of course cerebral. I loved it and even shared the link with some of my friends who share my interest.
After about a month, in June 2016, one of my friend Sangat, posted in Facebook about how the plot of Bob was copied by an Indian short film called Kriti released in YouTube in June 2016. I instantly checked out Kriti and was stunned at what I saw. "Kriti" that starred renowned actors like Manoj Bajpayee, Radhika Apte and Neha Sharma was a modified version of short movie "Bob". They had completely copied the main plot of "Bob" and made some minor changes at the end and had made a copy. I soon circulated the new video "Kriti" with my friends and everyone agreed that, Kriti was a crappy copy of "Bob". One of my friend pointed that even the poster was copied from a Japanese movie. I remember laughing at Shirish Kundar that he is not only bad at making movies, he is awful at copying too.
Plot:
The film starts with a boy attending the regular session with a psychiatrist where he talks about his life, friends and family. There are sounds in the background that the boy's brain is creating and asking him to do things. His thoughts are divided between the psychiatrist's suggestions and the voices' demand. He talks about a girl who he likes being with but is confused if she really exists. He has lost his pace with the reality and his mind cannot decide which is real and which is his imagination. After the proper diagnose, the psychiatrist confirms his lady friend to be a fragment of his imagination as the name of the lady "Maina" matches with his mother's name, "Meena". The voices in his brain urges him to kill the imagination, that is to kill the girl. And at the ending scene when the boy is taking the girl with him with an intention to end it all for good, few boys from the street comment on the ability of the boy to find such a catch . Yes, the girl is real.
The movie ends here, but we all can guess what happens next.
Kriti
The film starts with a man (Manoj Bajpayee) visiting an old friend and psychiatrist (Radhika Apte) where he talks about his life and girlfriends. He says that he met a girl "Rachana" (Neha Sharma) who is a writer and very coy around people. But they both liked each other's company and they started living together. He says that Rachana stays in her room all day, doesn't use any social sites and doesn't like taking photos. After listening to him the psychiatrist tells him that this Rachana was just a fragment of his imagination. He denies the fact and leaves. After reaching home he tries to show Rachana to the psychiatrist through a video call but the psychiatrist holds that she cannot see anything and Rachana was just an imagination. He gets furious and tries to force Rachana out of the house to the public which she denies and screams and struggles to avoid it. He is finally convinced that she is not real and he kills her. Next morning police officers appear in his house and finds the body of the girl. Yes, the girl was real.
The movie ends with the police taking him in custody.
Controversy
After release of "Kriti" the news of it being copied from Nepali short film "Bob" started getting shape. It was the first time this kind of case had come up. Aneel, the director of "Bob" came forward and posted the issue of the copyright violation in his Facebook page. Soon it was all over social media and finally reached the makers of "Kriti". The director of "Kriti", Sirish Kundar reacted hastily in this issue fueling it for further controversy. He urged that his script was somehow leaked and found by Aneel who made the movie just for the controversy and to gain fame. And what happened next was what always happens, the Nepali people stood united and it grew to be a national issue; #KritiStoleBob went viral and people from both Nepal and India supported the cause and presented their view. "Kriti" was finally removed from YouTube as copyright violation and sadly "Bob" was too.
BUT
It doesn't end here. Shirish Kunder and Manoj Bajpayee with their lawyers go for a press conference to clown themselves. Manoj Bajpayee claims that the idea of "Kriti" was born last year during Eid in Shirish's house and he had urged Shirish to make the film. He targets Aneel to be a fraud and accuse of playing a sympathy card of being poor. He with Shirish tries to establish the fact that Aneel (as per Shrisih Kunder- "koi saadi ka video banane wala") somehow got his hands in their script and made a video with his handicam in an hour and posted in Vimeo. When asked that the video was posted in Vimeo in October 2015, his lawyer claims that due to some defects in the Vimeo software, the publish dates can be manipulated. They even claim to prove that and gets a bored and funny looking guy in front of camera who stands below a big screen and says that if the old video is replaced by new the date remains the same. Seriously! And they are claiming that they are doing a big favor to all movie industry with that reveal.
But even after his all research in flaws of internet, Shirish Kunder forgets the fact that "Bob" was released earlier in YouTube than "Kriti", and no one points that out. Ah so honest!
Shirish Kunder blames 3 people for whole controversy. First, all the Nepali citizen, second the social media trolls and the third their own media. As they have no way to convince the first two, they seem to be trying to convince their own media by pleading to support them.
The makers of "Kriti" are seemed to be defending themselves as being truthful pointing out the fact that the makers of "Bob" are not responding to their notice. They do not intend to go for any legal solutions as they believe that this is Aneel's case to prove them fraud and they will go to court only if dragged. I hope Aneel and the makers of "Bob" respond to the notice and go for legal action with sufficient proof. And as for us, we Nepali people shall always support and stand for the cause.
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