Sirish Kunder's advocate gives a statement explaining why Kriti was taken off YouTube!

The advocate has also asked the Nepali filmmaker to prove his allegations

The heated debate that is raging on in entire B-town right now is whether Sirish Kunder‘s short film Kriti was copied from a Nepali film or not. Nepali director Aneel Neupane, who made the short film BOB with very similar themes as Kriti claims that it was Sirish who plagiarised his idea. To make things worse, the Manoj Bajpayee and Radhika Apte starrer was taken off YouTube. Now, Mr Kunder’s advocater Mr Rizwan Siddiqui has issued an official statement on the matter.

He said that,” Unfortunately, my clients film “Kriti” was pulled down as a result of the automated system of YouTube, which reacts to claims by any random person in the same way. It is in no way a reflection of copyright judgement. We have already written to YouTube, and YouTube has undertaken to reinstate my client’s film titled “Kriti” on its esteemed channel, at the earliest.” Mr Siddiqui also suggested an alternative for those who want to watch Kriti,” Now keeping in mind the larger interests of all viewers and considering the fact that my client’s film has been viewed almost three million times within a short span of 6 days, my clients have in the meantime uploaded the said film on Muvizz.com, Dailymotion, Vimeo and Facebook.”

Finally, speaking about the allegations on Sirish by Aneel Neupane, the advocate concluded that,” Mr. Aneel Neupane has already been served a legal notice and now the burden of proof is on him to substantiate his allegations and prove the genuineness of his claims. We will wait and see how genuine his claims are.”

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Sirish Kunder's advocate gives a statement explaining why Kriti was taken off YouTube!