India, April 16 -- Christopher Nolan's Inception is an iconic film that will forever remain in the pop culture zeitgeist. Kalki 2898 AD director Nag Ashwin revealed in an interview recently that he had a 'similar idea to Inception' and that he was 'depressed for a week' after he saw the film's trailer. The internet was tickled pink by his claim, cracking jokes on the director. (Also Read: Nag Ashwin gives major update on Prabhas, Deepika, Amitabh Bachchan's Kalki 2898 AD sequel: 'It will have more of.')

In a session hosted by Gulte, Nag was asked how difficult it was to come up with an original idea in the age of the internet. He replied, "A lot of us write something, and a few months later, we see a trailer with the same idea or concept...