''Kriti'' is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language short film directed by

Shirish Kunder Shirish Kunder (born 24 May 1973) is an Indian filmmaker. After working as an editor on 21 films starting with ''Champion'' (2000), Kunder made his screenwriting and directorial debut with ''Jaan-E-Mann'' (2006). He is married to choreograph ...

and produced by Muvizz.com. Hosted on

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, the film is a

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that stars

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and

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as the main characters and was released on 22 June 2016. It has been dubbed a "dark drama".

Cast

as Sapan *

as Dr. Kalpana *

as Kriti *

Manu Rishi Manu Rishi Chadha (born 3 January 1971) is an Indian actor, lyricist, script and dialogue writer who works in Hindi films. Rishi is trained under theatre director Arvind Gaur for six years. He won the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award, 2009 for ''Oy ...

as Srijan Rane

Controversy

Soon after the release of the movie on YouTube, the movie ran into controversy after a young filmmaker from

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, Aneel Neupane claimed the movie was a copy of his short film ''Bob'' released on

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in October 2015 privately among friend and family circle. The incident developed into an ugly affair of claims and counterclaims with both the films being removed from YouTube. ''Kriti'' is now back on YouTube about three weeks after it was pulled down for violating said claim and ''Bob'' is back as well on YouTube. Another short named ''DAZED'' also got into fight which had the similar storyline and was released on March 13, 2015, even before the both movies.

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* * * * * {{YouTube, -f19gc7oEjA, DAZED 2016 films Indian short films 2010s Hindi-language films 2016 short films