On June 22, director Shirish Kunder (of Jaaneman and Joker fame) released his short called Kriti. The short, based on a delusional man’s visitation to his psychiatrist was well-received in India.
#Kriti review: This @BajpayeeManoj, @radhika_apte thriller doesn’t fall short https://t.co/0JDfCL3XmB pic.twitter.com/SQ1DGHawCX
— Firstpost (@firstpost) June 23, 2016
But soon after Kriti‘s release, Aneel Neupane, an independent filmmaker based in Kathmandu accused Kunder for ‘plagiarising’ his earlier short titled Bob.
Kunder took it to Twitter to clear the allegation.
To those comparing #Kriti with some short film released on May 12, 2016:#Kriti was shot in February, 2016.
Hope this settles the matter.
— Shirish Kunder (@ShirishKunder) June 24, 2016
Twitter-users in Nepal also took it to the micro-blogging site with reactions on the development. #KritiStoleBob was hence born.
Watch @AneelNeupane‘s Bob https://t.co/Ll9Hhj98DO & @ShirishKunder‘s Kriti https://t.co/1Vsp3Ff1h8. #KritiStoleBOB? Judge yourself
— Paavan Mathema (@paavan11) June 26, 2016
Smh? How can @ShirishKunder sleep stealing someone else’s work and then riding on fame through it.. Respect original #BOB.. #KritiStoleBOB
— Tarvinder Singh (@tarvinder87) June 24, 2016
While some Twitter users couldn’t care less…
reaction 1: Wait, #kritistoleBOB ?
Watches both movies.
Kriti didn’t steal it. It needs to be good to steal.— Shashank Shrestha (@shashankji) June 24, 2016
… others were mostly furious.
@ShirishKunder steals a struggling Nepali filmmaker’s storyline & gets kudos. Not fair. Retweet #KritiStoleBob pic.twitter.com/tl4zx0SzBZ
— SAMRIDDHI (@samriddhirai13) June 24, 2016
Others mostly jived Kunder for allegedly plagiarising Neupane’s Bob.
@ShirishKunder are you suffering from schizophrenia as well? Better visit Dr. Kalpana or at least talk to @AneelNeupane! #kritistolebob
— Suraj Ratna Shakya (@mypresense) June 25, 2016
@ShirishKunder have you seen https://t.co/IRUkC56YBS ? Did you also use google translate ? More power to @AneelNeupane #KritistoleBob
— Rishi Kartik (@rishikartik) June 24, 2016
This particular tweet clearly takes the cake.
@ShirishKunder can’t even do a Kalpana to do a Rachana of a movie like BOB. So, #KritistoleBOB ? ?
— Pratik Ghimire (@pratik_gravity) June 24, 2016
