Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare

Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare is a British documentary about Kirat, a woman who begins an online romance with a man named Bobby. What starts as a friendship request grows into a relationship conducted entirely through messages and calls, and it reshapes her life over a period of years. The situation changes when she comes to understand that the person she has been involved with is not who he claimed to be, and that the deception was deliberate. The film examines how the relationship was sustained and what it cost her.

Lyttanya Shannon directed and wrote the documentary, which was produced by Kiran Sira for RAW. It runs 82 minutes and was released in October 2024. The film mixes firsthand accounts with dramatized passages; Kirat Assi, Bobby Jandu and Sanj Jandu appear as themselves, while Hemma Gulhane, Anurag Mehra and Ariya Larker play them in the recreated scenes.

Audience response has been moderate. On IMDb, the film holds a rating of 6.2 from roughly 6,500 votes, suggesting a reasonably wide viewership with a mixed to mildly positive reception. On TMDB it sits at 6.7 from a much smaller base of 71 votes, a figure too limited to carry much weight. The two are broadly consistent with each other, pointing to a documentary that drew attention without provoking strong enthusiasm.