Nag Ashwin recently speaking to scribes shared that he has an idea and he drew inspiration from the Hollywood film Inception. He said “I had an idea in 2007 or 2008 that was not the same but similar to Inception. But I was writing about memories, and that was about dreams. Once I saw the trailer, I was depressed for a week. You can’t control originality, and there’s no point chasing it. It’s important to be authentic rather than original.”
Following his talk, netizens started trolling Nag Ashwin.
One X (formerly Twitter) user wrote, “Just like govinda was supposed to play in Avatar? Yeah ok.” Another wrote, “Ever heard of Paprika which came out in 2006, based on the 1993 novel of the same name? Inception movie was inspired by this movie which later came out in 2010. So Nag Ashwin probably watched this Anime movie, and got the idea in 2008 but couldn't implement it.”
A Reddit user joked, “ I read about Govinda vs Cameroon but this is next level. He has beaten Varun Dhawan saying dilwale is better than inception.” Another asked, “Prabhas DiCaprio ko hero lega kya (Will Prabhas DiCaprio be the hero?) ” Some even made memes about how Nag must’ve reacted after watching Inception trailer. One X user wrote, “ Wow eeyana thoughts inception range nunchi kalki ki padipoyaya? (Wow so his thoughts fell from Inception to Kalki?) ”