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Kajol starrer Devi Lands in Legal Trouble? Makers Accused of Plagiarism

A film student from Noida has leveled allegations of plagiarism against the Kajol starrer Devi and he plans on taking legal action for the same...

Kajol starrer Devi accused of Plagerism

Kajol’s recent release, Devi has received a lot of appreciation from the fans and critics as well. The short film holds an ensemble cast including Kajol, Neha Dhupia, and Shruti Haasan, among others.

Meanwhile, some aren’t happy with her success as a film student has alleged that Devi is copied from his film.

Abhishek Rai, a filmmaking student from the Asian Academy of Film and Television in Noida has claimed that Priyanka Banerjee's short film Devi is identical to his five-and-a-half-minute film titled Four. 

In a Facebook post, Abhishek wrote, "Here’s something I’d like to bring to everybody’s notice. We at AndaKurry Productions, made a short film when we were in film school, 2 years back called ‘FOUR’ that dealt with a premise of rape victims sitting together in a room when a new victim arrives. And yesterday, a film named ‘Devi’ was uploaded to LargeShortFilms’s YouTube channel that has heavy resemblance and the premise is also of the film we made.”

“Of course our film was a student film, with very little production design, bad audio, and stuff, but still it’s a child of our own imagination and it’s ruthless how anyone can just pick up a piece of thought and claim it to be theirs. The film is an intellectual property of the Asian Academy of Film & Television,” the note added.

Abhishek also mentioned that he was not contacted by the makers of the film and that he was thinking of going legal.

The short film - Devi was released on YouTube a few days ago the story of nine women cramped in an apartment and discussing how to accommodate the 10th person. All nine women are from different sections of society but have a shared trauma of sexual harassment.

On the contrary, Abhishek Rai's Four was released in June 2018 and has the same concept, but instead of nine, there are three rape victims.

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