In response to Aneel Neupane's plagiarism claims, he demands that the Nepali filmmaker take down his short, BOB.
MUMBAI MIRROR (June 28, 2016)

Shirish Kunder on Monday filed a legal notice against Nepali filmmaker Aneel Neupane who has claimed that Kunder's debut short film Kriti is a copy of his own short, BOB. Kunder has sought a written apology.

After Kriti, which released on YouTube on June 22, started being praised on the social media, Aneel accused Shirish of "practically stealing the plot" of his movie. In a reaction to the allegations, Shirish has sent a legal notice to Aneel through his advocate. The notice states that Kunder made Kriti as a "professional film" and further argues, "Kunder completed shooting the film in February 2016. It then went into post-production and was published on June 22, 2016."

According to Aneel, BOB 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. In response to that, Shirish's notice reads that he could "not have obtained a copy" of BOB and that since the script of Kriti was with a few people, it is "entirely possible" that Aneel came across it and made BOB. Assuming your position is correct that the two films are so similar, then it is you who has infringed our client's copyright," the notice reads.

Kriti features Manoj Bajpayee, Radhika Apte, Neha Sharma and Manu Rishi in a brief turn. Shirish has demanded that Aneel tender an "unconditional written apology", refrain from making any oral or written comments on Kriti, take down BOB from the internet immediately and refrain from publishing the same or any part thereof on any other medium.