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Film school student alleges Kajol starrer Devi is a copy of his film Four which was released in 2018
Priyanka Banerjee's short film Devi that was released on YouTube a few days ago seems to have fallen into trouble after a filmmaking student alleged that the film was copied from his film. Devi has an ensemble cast including Kajol, Neha Dhupia, and Shruti Haasan, among others.
Abhishek Rai, a student of Asian Academy of Film and Television in Noida has leveled allegations of plagiarism against the short film. He claimed that it 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..