Sweet Bobby My Catfish Nightmare is all set to get released on 16th October on Netflix. It is a suspenseful British movie. It features Harkirat Kaur Assi. It has been directed by Lyttanya Shannon. The mysterious plot of Sweet Bobby My Catfish Nightmare has raised the excitement level and viewers want to know whether the movie is based on a real-life story or if it is based on a novel or a book.
Is Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare based on a true story?
The answer to this question is yes. Sweet Bobby My Catfish Nightmare is based on a real-life event. It is a crime thriller documentary narrated by the victim Harkirat Kaur Assi. It is a real-life story of a Harkirat Assi, a 32-year-old woman, who met someone online and eventually got ditched by him.
The synopsis of the movie reads, “Kirat falls for a man she meets online, only to get swept up in a virtual relationship that upends her life for years, in this shocking documentary.”
In the real-life incident, Harkirat Assi fell in love with this man who was named Bobby Jandu according to his social media profile. She came into a virtual relationship with him for ten years.
After these ten years, Harkirat discovered the truth. She got to know that Dr. Bobby Jandu was never in touch with her. Actually, Dr. Bobby Jandu was a victim of identity theft in a catfishing scene. He had never talked to Harkirat. His identity was stolen by someone else. It was stolen by Simran Kaur Bhogal who was Assi's distant family relative. Simran had created and impersonated over 50 different characters.
After Harkirat discovered the truth, she sued Simran. Following around 18 months of litigation, Simran Kaur Bhogal finally agreed to pay Harkirat Assi for her substantial damages and legal costs. She also provided Assi with a formal letter of apology.
Harkirat shared her tragic experience and said, “People say, ‘How can you be so stupid?’ That's the constant question you get. But none of us are stupid. It's just the perpetrator's gone the extra mile.”
“At the moment of her confession, I was screaming, ‘Why?’ But I've long ago let go of that. There's just no reason to have done what she did. Now, I just need to know how she did it,” she further added.