 Several reviewers consider this film to be a remake of  _Waking Ned (1998)_ (qv). Both films are set in a small remote  village, involve a man winning the lottery and dying of shock with  the winning ticket clutched in his hand, two people conspire to take  the winnings, the conspiracy expands to involve the whole village,  and a single villager attempts to reveal the conspiracy but dies in  a car accident. However director Priyadarshan claims it is "totally  and absolutely original".