Kriti vs Bob: Has Shirish Kunder stolen the story of the nepalese short film?

Now that #KritiSeeksTruth is trending on Twitter, it’s time to find out the truth here on Indicine. Even though YouTube has decided to take down Shirish Kunder’s short film ‘Kriti’, a lot of our readers here have already watched the film – which had received more than 2.5 million views after its release last week.

Timeline:

  • November 8 2015: Aneel Neupane releases his Nepalese short film on popular video sharing website Vimeo. Watch it on Vimeo

  • February 2016: Shirish Kunder begins shooting for ‘Kriti’. The month was confirmed by the director himself “To those comparing #Kriti with some short film released on May 12, 2016: Kriti was shot in February, 2016. Hope this settles the matter” he said on Twitter.
  • June 22 2016: Kriti is released on the internet, gets rave reviews and finds appreciation.
  • June 24 2016: Filmmaker Aneel Neupane accuses Kunder of lifting his story. Read his Facebook Post.
  • June 27 2016: In response, Kunder blames Neupane of copying his film. He sends a legal notice which reads “Kunder completed shooting the film in February 2016. It then went into post-production and was published on June 22, 2016” Kunder’s notice reads that he could “not have obtained a copy” of Bob. In fact, he says that since the script of Kriti was available with a few people, it is “entirely possible” that Neupane came across it and then put BOB together. The notice to Neupane further reads “Assuming your position is correct that the two films are so similar, then it is you who has infringed our client’s copyright.”
  • June 29 2016: YouTube removes Shirish Kunder’s ‘Kriti’ after verifying a copyright claim from Neupane.

Watch the short film ‘BOB’ and vote on Yes, if you think Kunder has lifted the plot. No, if you think he’s being unfairly targeted.

Kriti vs Bob: Has Shirish Kunder stolen the plot?

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29 Comments

  • Kunder thinks that the Nepali director time travelled and plagiarized India’s greatest director’s film Kriti and made it his own.

    Wow,you deserve nobel prize Kunder.

  • Anyone who have watched these two films knows Shrish has copied from BOB ,such a shame and shame on him and the whole team behind KRITI.

  • There actually some idiots who think Shrish Kunder did not steal this film storyline,are they blind or just just playing dumb.

  • @Babaji, agree to you. But there is a bad news for you. The Nepali Director also has a huge crush on Neha Sharma.
    New entrant in the market!!

  • Somebody, please research on the films made by Farah-Shirish such as MHN, Jaan E Mann, OSO, Joker, TMK, HNY etc. They might be copied from somewhere without buying copyrights!! Who knows??

  • Araadhna,Sate pe Sata,Dkhmn,baazigar,Kaante,Zeher,phir hera pheri,and many others did not pass through the right process when copying other movies… of recent is the biggest scandal of Balaji/ekta kapor Ek villain copying directly from a Korean thriller Intls.

    Hats off to ..
    Rakesh Roshans Koi milgaya .. Et
    Kjo we are family … stepmom 98
    Bhatts Murder 3…..columbian thriller…

    Who officially bought rights from the original ones legally…

    Say no to Plagiarism!!!!!! esp in an illegal way like what Kunder did with his Fatso wife Farha busy supporting him on social media..!!

    Cre

  • Why not some people claim ‘joker’ as their own story…that was the only masterpiece by shirish kunder…i want answer @indicine???

  • This is a great work of Indicine!!! But not so great work of Kunder….I guess that’s why his movies are not that great ….since his main objective is to cheat and move ahead !!!

  • It is clear that shirish kunder’s kirti is copied from nepali short film bob . Bob was release on nov 8 2015 and shirish kunder has started filming kirti on feb 2016. But don’t know who are these 13% people who vote for no option.

  • Only Eid Will Save Sultan Crap.
    It will stay below Krissh 3 collection.
    Brothers is a masterpiece in front of this movie.
    MMA sequences are poor than Brothers & it has ordinary story, Brothers had a different story but still families didn’t came and Sultan story is like all routine crap sagas.
    Mark it-> Sultan will neither cross CE footfalls nor Krissh 3 collection.
    Movies like Bajrangi Bhaijaan come Once in Lifetime and it revived the career of Salman.
    Stay tuned : my Sultan predicition coming soon

  • OK, before any idiot starts throwing blames around, the nepali director himself has said that his film wasn’t made public on that day but was made public on may 12…So unless the nepali director himself showed the film to Shirish, there was noway if him knowing the plot..

  • I think farah khan destroyed tmk, the story had potential, could of been made into con thriller rather than mindless masala.

  • That’s why I have thought that how can a director crap director homemademoviez like joker And Janeman could make such a standard film now I also doubt that the was not done by himself.

  • Hi guys, I’m from Nepal, regular visitor, BIG fan of Salman. It’s 88% vs. 12%. Thank you for support on true thing rather biased by countrywise. My question for 12%, are you guys really think that Kriti wasn’t copy of BOB? Put your hands on chest and again ask yourself.

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