India, April 16 -- In a candid revelation that has left fans of sci-fi and Indian cinema buzzing, Kalki 2898 AD (2024) director Nag Ashwin recently shared that he almost created a film similar to Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning Inception (2010)- two years before it hit the big screen. Speaking at a Hyderabad college during an interaction with students, the filmmaker opened up about the fluid nature of creativity and how overlapping ideas can strike artists across the globe. "I had written something like Inception in 2008. While the Nolan film was about dreams, mine was about memories. In fact, seeing the trailer of Inception made me go have a week of depression," he said.

That "week of depression," as Ashwin jokingly called it, was not...