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Kriti row: Shirish accuse Neupane of manipulating Vimeo flaw

ByPTI, Mumbai
Jul 01, 2016 05:32 PM IST

Kunder’s film was released online on June 22 with much fan fare where actor Kangana Ranaut was the special guest.

Refuting plagiarism charges against his short film Kriti, director Shirish Kunder has accused Nepali filmmaker Aneel Neupane of manipulating the flaw on the video sharing platform Vimeo to build his case.

Shirish says he worked for three years on Kriti’s script. (HT Photo)
Shirish says he worked for three years on Kriti’s script. (HT Photo)

Neupane, a filmmaker from Nepal had recently written on his Facebook page that Kunder’s psychological-thriller starring Manoj Bajpayee was a copy of his short movie Bob and alleged that the Jaan-E-Mann director “practically stole the plot and made it into his film.”

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Neupane wrote that his film was ready in October 2015 and he uploaded it on Vimeo “as a private video to share it with close friends” before releasing it on YouTube on May 12, this year.

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Kunder’s film was released online on June 22 with much fan fare where actor Kangana Ranaut was the special guest.

Kunder said anyone could replace an existing video on Vimeo with a new one and manipulate the date on which it was published, even being able to give an older date. “In July last year, we (Manoj and I) talked about the story idea (of Kriti). After finalising the dates and everything, we planned to shoot in February this year and then decided to release in June,” said Shirish.

“In between, a guy who makes marriage videos, manipulates the flaw on Vimeo, shoots a film on handycam and uses the flaw to put in an old date to claim that the film was made much before ours and we stole,” he added.

Manoj said he was hurt by people’s comments on social media regarding the accusation of Kriti being a copy. “In my long career no film has been accused of being a copy. It is so unfortunate that the entire idea came from a lunch party at Eid last year July. I told Shirish if he has any plans of making a short a film. He had a script but he said it was for a young character,” said Manoj.

Kriti is a psychological thriller.
Kriti is a psychological thriller.

“We were talking, he wasn’t even making short films. He is known for full length feature films. It is hurtful for me because it was started from my side (the idea to make short films) now people are saying we stole the film. We are being called names on twitter, people are abusing us on Facebook,” he added.

The Aligarh actor also said that he was feeling bad for Kunder who was “being victimised by an ambitious crook.”

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