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.

Now onwards, we at xNepali will try to discourage such a trend in Nepali movies by not talking about the movies or their names.

We hope the film makers will realize that such unethical practice won’t help in film promotion.

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. 

The movie written and directed by Manish Pantha features Kishor Khatiwada and Neeta Dhungana in lead roles. Other actors include Arunima Lamsal, Kishor Shrestha, Mukesh Acharya, Pradeep Dhakal, Rashmi Bhatta, Samyam Puri, Sushil Thapa etc. ‘Urbashi’ was shot in places like Butwal, Palpa, Lumbini and Trebeni. The movie is expected to release on November 29, 2013.

Because of the lack of government intervention, poster morphing has been going on in Nepali film industry. Some have even used such a practice to get more publicity.

We believe, poster morphing is a new free advertising for film makers. So, we expect such a practice to increase in coming days.