Kalki makers accused of Plagiarism? Find out!
Kalki released its trailer earlier and a Hollywood artist named, Oliver Beck and Sung Choi took to social media and outspoken their accusation that the Vyjayanthi Movie. That they have plagiarized their work.
The Hollywood artist says, “This is the first time my work got duplicated in an Indian film.” In a recent interview, Oliver shared that the makers of Kalki have contacted him for a collaboration on this film. But after negotiation, they weren’t on it.
However, after seeing the trailer, he accuses them have taking his work and released without his concern.
Both Oliver Beck and Sung Choi shared side-by-side comparisons of their original illustrations with frames from the trailer. While Sung Choi later removed his tweet, Oliver persisted with his accusations against the creators of Kalki 2898 AD. He said, “Sung Choi wrote about his work being stolen in Kalki 2898 AD trailer on Twitter and then I clicked on the trailer and saw that it is inspired by my work.”
Kalki makers accused of Plagiarism? Find out!
He also added, “It might be difficult to see the plagiarism when you are not an artist. You might not see it immediately but all my artist friends that I have talked to and the artist community are very clear that this was referenced from my work and you can see clearly that the main takeaways are the color palettes, it is the same, and also the shapes. It is not an exact copy but the shapes are similar. It is too much of a coincidence because they also contacted me to work on this film. So, they know my portfolio and they have seen my work so it is too much of a coincidence.”
Would he take legal action? He said, “Legal recourse is challenging for me because there isn’t direct copying of my artwork. Legal action typically requires very evident plagiarism, such as in Sung Choi’s case where the work was practically copy-pasted.”
He ended saying, “This is the first time that an artwork of mine was plagiarised on such a big scale. It has happened before but they were very minor things. This is the first time my work got duplicated in an Indian film.”