Orijinal Movie Review & Rating: By now, anyone who has heard the title Orijinal knows that it’s a time-travel film, and the promotional materials have made it abundantly clear. However, it’s not a high-concept, tech-heavy movie. Instead, writer-director Ramees anchors it in a moral conflict, where two versions of the same person clash in a battle between doing the right thing and doing what’s right for them.

In 2012, Rijin (Sreenath Bhasi) is an aspiring filmmaker. Since childhood, he has grown up believing that it’s okay to copy other people’s work and pass it off as his own as long as others don’t figure it out. Even as an adult, he continues this practice and pitches to producers stories of foreign films as his own. Fast forward to 2024: Rijin is still struggling as he never made it big after being exposed for plagiarism.…