KATHMANDU, July 10: Nepali filmmaker Aneel Neupane has sent a legal notice to the makers of the Hindi short film‘Kriti’ demanding IRs 2.5 million in compensation.
Neupane had earlier alleged that Indian filmmaker Shirish Kunder’s short film ‘Kriti’, that had its YouTube release on June 22, has lifted “the concept, storyline, the characters, presentation” of his short film ‘Bob’ which went public on May 12 on YouTube and was privately made available to a circle of his friends on December of last year on video sharing site Vimeo.
‘Kriti’ makers to file defamation suit against Aneel Neupane
Holding a press conference in Kathmandu, Neupane informed that he has appointed an Indian advocate Amulya Dhingra and they are taking the case against Kunder and his team. Along with the compensation amount, the notice asks the makers of ‘Kriti’ to recognize Neupane as “the original author and creator of the original literary, dramatic and artistic works related to Bob”.
Earlier, responding to Neupane’s allegations, Kunder’s representatives had sent Neupane an email notice on June 27 demanding him to stop “making wrong, illegal and false accusations” and to pull down his short film from the internet.
Later in a press meeting, Muvizz.com had described that Neupane had backdated his video on Vimeo to con his way to make those plagiarism claims.
“If Mr. Kunder had taken my claims sportingly and said that the two films are completely different, I would’ve respected that. But instead he bashed my claims and went on to call me a ‘marriage videomaker’ and an attention seeking cheater.
I had to break my silence and take some legal actions,” Neupane said.
