Yogi Babu and his new film Pei Mama are trending big time and for all the wrong reasons. The makers of Pei Mama shared the new poster of the film on social media recently. The Internet never forgets and Twitter's collective memory was quick in pointing out the striking similarity in the poster of Pei Mama with that of Vicky Kaushal's Bhoot Part One: The Haunted Ship. The makers of Pei Mama have photoshopped the face of actor Yogi Babu with Vicky Kaushal. Twitter users trolled the makers for face swapping Yogi Babu's face with Vicky Kaushal.
See some of the tweets here:
This is the OFFICIAL POSTER of #YogiBabu's #PeiMama which is not copied, nor inspired but they directly used #Bhoot poster pic.twitter.com/OYQjtxeYiZ
— (@cinemapuram) September 22, 2021
Lifted from #Bhoot poster ! Just they replaced the characters . Terrible !!! pic.twitter.com/6trOE4PRkx
— CineHub (@RahulVerma4860) September 22, 2021
This is the OFFICIAL POSTER of #YogiBabu's #PeiMama which is not copied, nor inspired but they directly used #Bhoot poster by using face swapping technique.. pic.twitter.com/PAkajS7vvQ
— ashiya shaikh (@ashiyashaik12j1) September 21, 2021
#Bhoot | #PeiMama pic.twitter.com/juOrzGSaio
— Studio Flicks (@StudioFlicks) September 20, 2021
Pei Mama is a horror-comedy directed by Sakthi Chidambaram. It also stars Malavika Menon, Vaiyapuri, Ramesh Khanna, MS Bhaskar, Kovai Sarala, and Chaams.
Bhoot: Part One - The Haunted Ship, other than Vicky Kaushal, also starred Bhumi Pednekar and Ashutosh Rana in pivotal roles. The film was the first of its series directed by Bhanu Pratap Singh and produced by Karan Johar's Dharma Productions.
The film opened to largely poor reviews from film critics. In his review for NDTV, Saibal Chatterjee gave 1.5 stars (out of 5) to Bhoot: Part One and wrote: "You know a horror film is a horrific misfire when it resorts to every trick in the book to scare the living daylights out of you but fails to well and truly pin you down. There is no want of trying in Bhoot: Part One - The Haunted Ship, written and directed by Bhanu Pratap Singh. The film abounds in tame and cliched genre tics that eventually amount to little."