Short Film Kriti Copied? Shirish Kunder Clarifies

Kriti-[tps_footer]Shirish Kunder is much in the limelight for his short film ‘Kriti’. The psychological short film stars actors Manoj Bajpayee, Radhika Apte and Neha Sharma. The 18 minute long drama is well received by the watchers. The film has already released on video sharing platforms. The short film is gripping to the core with a thrilling end.

‘Kriti’ received loads of praises for its plot. Moreover, the movie is also crossing all the viewing records. Many Bollywood celebrities like Karan Johar, Abhishek Bachchan, and Farhan Akhtar also applauded the film. Just when all was going great with the movie, a new update came up.

Nepali filmmaker Aneel Neupane who has directed the short film ‘BOB’ has now accused Shirish Kunder of plagiarism. The short filmmaker Aneel wrote a post on the social networking site Facebook tagging Shirish. Aneel stated that Kunder has stolen the concept of his film ‘BOB’.

Even the masses who were applauding ‘Kriti’ have found unmissable similarities between ‘Kriti’ and ‘BOB’. Moreover, the opening scenes of the two films are strikingly same. Only the climax of the two short movies is different but the concept is highly same.

Aneel Neupane in his Facebook post stated the following things

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Shirish Kunder has now opened up on the matter on the micro blogging site Twitter, the director tweeted,

To those comparing #Kriti with some short film released on May 12, 2016:#Kriti was shot in February, 2016.Hope this settles the matter.

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Well, even with Shirish Kunder’s tweet the matter is not settled as the ‘BOB’ director had something else to say in his post.

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