<p class="title">An ex-student has accused the makers of Kajol-starrer <em>Devi</em> of plagiarising his short film <em>Four</em> .</p>.<p class="bodytext">The film depicts how nine women belonging to different strata of society are brought together by circumstance and end up forming a sisterhood after they share their stories of abuse.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Directed by Priyanka Banerjee, the short is produced by Niranjan Iyengar and Ryan Ivan Stephen.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a Facebook post, Abhishek Rai alleged the movie has "heavy resemblance" with his own short film, which he wrote and directed in 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"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, two years back called <em>FOUR</em> that dealt with a premise of rape victims sitting together in a room when a new victim arrives.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And yesterday, a film named <em>Devi</em> was uploaded to LargeShortFilms's YouTube channel that has heavy resemblance and the premise is also of the film we made," Rai said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said it is "ruthless" on the part of <em>Devi</em> makers to claim his work as theirs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The film is an intellectual property of Asian Academy of Film & Television. one has contacted him regarding any kind of query. Now, I have not been contacted by large short films or the makers of the film regarding any kind of query," he claimed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The makers of <em>Devi</em> remained unavailable for a comment when contacted. </p>
<p class="title">An ex-student has accused the makers of Kajol-starrer <em>Devi</em> of plagiarising his short film <em>Four</em> .</p>.<p class="bodytext">The film depicts how nine women belonging to different strata of society are brought together by circumstance and end up forming a sisterhood after they share their stories of abuse.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Directed by Priyanka Banerjee, the short is produced by Niranjan Iyengar and Ryan Ivan Stephen.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a Facebook post, Abhishek Rai alleged the movie has "heavy resemblance" with his own short film, which he wrote and directed in 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"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, two years back called <em>FOUR</em> that dealt with a premise of rape victims sitting together in a room when a new victim arrives.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And yesterday, a film named <em>Devi</em> was uploaded to LargeShortFilms's YouTube channel that has heavy resemblance and the premise is also of the film we made," Rai said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said it is "ruthless" on the part of <em>Devi</em> makers to claim his work as theirs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The film is an intellectual property of Asian Academy of Film & Television. one has contacted him regarding any kind of query. Now, I have not been contacted by large short films or the makers of the film regarding any kind of query," he claimed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The makers of <em>Devi</em> remained unavailable for a comment when contacted. </p>