Copy Paste movie posters, book covers and advertisements

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Anand Nepal

There are various reports of Nepali movies taking the concepts, stories, and step-by-step scenes from various foreign movies. The posters are easily spotted and identified. The following list shows the list of movie posters that were stolen from foreign movie posters.

Copy-paste posters and movies:

Poster of ‘Jerryy’ and ‘Bidhuwa’ posterÂ – Bidhuwa poster was a photoshop poster. ‘Jerryy’ poster was only similar concept.
‘Wrong Way’ poster photoshop of ‘Mallika’ poster
‘Chapali Height‘ poster photoshop of ‘Basic Instinct’
‘Urabahi’ poster photoshop of ‘Snitch’ poster
‘Producer’ poster photoshop of ‘Casino Jack’
‘Premika’ poster copy of ‘100% Love’ poster
In a 2010 article on height of plagiarism in Nepali movies, we shared the photos of ‘Ghamanda’ poster being exact copy of ‘The Blade’ poster, Rekha Thapa‘s movie ‘Hifajat‘ being an exact copy of the poster of ‘Resident Evil’ and ‘Tridev’ being exact copy of Hindi movie ‘Tashan’ poster.
A part of ‘Devyani’ poster was copied from ‘Perfume’.
‘Farkera Herda’ used Yuna Upreti‘s face on the Katarina Kaif photo.

In addition to copy-paste poster, copy-paste advertisements are also seen in Nepali media. Continue reading

Poster copy, Bidhuwa poster copied from Hindi film Kaanchi poster

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Anand Nepal

Poster copying is not a new thing in Nepali film industry. The movie released this Friday also has the poster photoshopped from a Subash Ghai film ‘Kaanchi’. The poster has the face of the ‘Kaanchi’ actress replaced by the face of Sonu Ghimire.

A poster is the face of a movie and the attractiveness of a poster is directly proportional to the viewership in the movie. But, when somebody can clearly see the poster is copied from another movie, it is clear that there is no originality in the movie. Nobody would like to waste their hard-earned money in the movie made by somebody who don’t even design their own posters.

Photo morphing in Urbashi poster

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Anand Nepal

The first look poster of ‘Urbashi’ released on Monday was found to be a made by photo morphing of an English movie ‘Snitch’. The movie released on June 2013 featured Dwayne Johnson in the lead. ‘Urbashi’ makers had replaced Dwayne’s head by Kishor Khatiwada‘s head in the poster.

Poster morphing in Nepali movies, a new free advertising ?

Posted on April 14, 2013April 14, 2013 by Anand Nepal

It seems, Nepali film makers have decided that poster plagiarism is one of the marketing strategies. Although morphing of posters are criticized by almost everybody, remotely interested in Nepali movies, more and more movies are repeating the same thing.

The last movie we wrote about such poster copy was of ‘Wrong Way’, posted less than two weeks ago. Our readers, who otherwise wouldn’t know about the movie at least knew that the movie features Jiya KC and is being made.

We guess, the producers of ‘Producer’ knew about the free publicity and have released their own copy-paste poster. And, we fell for them and are posting their poster with the original (Shim Ant shared it in our Facebook page.) The photoshoped copy of the poster of an Alex Gibney’s film ‘Casino Jack and the United States of Money’ is made by adding a six Nepali faces in it.

‘Wrong Way’ of designing poster

Posted on April 1, 2013July 4, 2013 by Anand Nepal

We have talked a lot about poster plagiarism and the film makers are still trying to fool the audience. The poster of a well-known director Deepak Shrestha’s upcoming movie ‘Wrong Way’ is the latest copy-paste poster.

Chapali Height – height of controversy

Posted on March 10, 2012July 10, 2018 by Anand Nepal

The movie Chapali Height has been as controversial as the lead actress of the movie, Binita Baral. The movie is going to be released next week and we can expect to read more about the movie and it’s lead actress.

Poster morphing, concept stealing – damaging trend in Nepali movies

Posted on December 8, 2011June 3, 2014 by Anand Nepal

We posted a poster of Nepali movie "Premika" in which, the poster was 100% copy from a Telugu movie. The poster of another movie, Devyani, isn’t 100 percent copy but it also has picked poster of a German movie ‘Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ‘ to add in it’s poster. Such a copy in poster reduces the credibility of the movie and gives an impression that the movie itself is not original.

Farkera Herda â€“ the Flash Back â€“ another Height of plagiarism

Posted on July 27, 2010June 3, 2014 by Anand Nepal

After posters of Hifajat, Tridev, and Ghamanda, poster of the latest release of Gopi Krishna Movies, Farkera Herda has also used Photoshop to add Nepali actress Yuna Upreti’s face on a Bollywood actress’s body.

Is Yuna Upreti’s body so bad that they have to use somebody else’s body on her face?

Let’s look at the poster of the movie:

Now, compare Yuna Upreti in the poster above with the photo of Bollywood actress, Katarina Kaif below. Can you see any difference apart from the face?

Height of plagiarism in Nepali movies

Posted on March 4, 2010June 3, 2014 by Anand Nepal

A movie produced and acted by Rekha Thapa, “Hifajat“, is releasing soon. One of the posters featuring Rekha resembles very much with the poster of a 2007 Hollywood movie, Resident Evil: Extention.

Nagariknews says that there are only seven differences in the two posters. I can see that, apart from the face and some minor variations in dress there is nothing much difference between the two posters. Oh yes, the â€œLas Vegasâ€ has transformed itself to â€œKathmanduâ€!

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