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Exclusive! Director Bejoy Nambiar shuts down rip off rumours around Tu Yaa Main: ‘People assume we are copying’

Updated on: 04 February,2026 07:26 AM IST  |  Mumbai
Priyanka Sharma | priyanka.sharma@mid-day.com

Tu Yaa Main director Bejoy Nambiar has shut all rumours claiming that the Adarsh Gourav-Shanaya Kapoor starrer survival drama is adapted from the 2018 Thai film The Pool. The film recently received flak with many claiming it was a copy, and the makers lacked originality

Exclusive! Director Bejoy Nambiar shuts down rip off rumours around Tu Yaa Main: ‘People assume we are copying’

Bejoy Nambiar; a still from Tu Ya Main

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Since its announcement almost a year ago, Tu Yaa Main has been much-anticipated, given its theme of survival as well as the intriguing dynamics between its primary characters. Now weeks ahead of the release, the Adarsh Gourav-Shanaya Kapoor starrer, finds itself at the receiving end of online criticism. Reason? It is adapted from the 2018 Thai film The Pool.

Miffed audience members are calling the film a copy, despite the survival thriller being an official adaptation. Furthermore, the makers are being criticised for allegedly lacking originality. 


We reached out to director Bejoy Nambiar, who expressed his displeasure at the discourse. “It is an official adaptation. We have mentioned it in the credits in the trailer and also in the film. I am just annoyed how people just assume that we are just copying and remaking. Since it’s the first time I am adapting another film, I made it a point not to watch the original,” he said.



The end credit slate of Tu Yaa Main official trailer mentions “adapted from the original screenplay ‘The Pool’, written by Ping Lumpraploeng.”

The Pool tells the horror of a couple trapped in a deep pool with a crocodile being their opponent. For Tu Yaa Main, Himanshu Sharma has been credited with the story, while screenplay and dialogues have been written by Abhishek Arun Bandekar. 

Co-produced by Aanand L Rai’s Colour Yellow and Bhanushali Studios, Tu Yaa Main is slated to arrive in theatres on February 13.

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