Bollywood : The Great Copycat

[Rahim]

Originally Posted by amitava82

Well.... Everybody knows that bollywood take Inspirations form west

You said the word buddy.
Bollywood cant just say "We Copy". So they introduced the word Iinspiration", "Inspired From ....", " A Tribute to ala Ram Gopal Varma",etc..
Chor ko chor bolega toh usey bhi buraa lagtaa hai !!!!

[Ethan_Hunt]

Inspiration is a very loosely word used in our Indian Cinema.Same goes for the word 'Remake'.This is pure crap.Lifiting each scene & sometimes even the dialogue must be an assest that some directors feel they have.Major one that I can think of it Sanjay Gupta.Nearly all his movies have been a direct lift from the hollywood or the Korean films.Though I like his direction style but that doesn't justify copying the idea from another film maker.If you look at David Dhawan who used to make some good TP flicks like Coolie No.1,Hero No.1 & Raja Babu had recently directed Partner which was a complete lift from the Hollywood movie which I really admired, Hitch.That left a bitter feeling in my mind for all things being copied.

Though the cake is definitely taken by Jaani Dushman.A movie which has possibly lifted the maximum number of hollywood scenes possible.

Take all the Nadiadwala productions.Aawara Paagal Deewana not only lifted The whole nine yards plot but ripped off The Matrix's best scenes to add-in some jazz to the movie.

Why the F aren't these people questioned on it? Have we lost originality completely?

I admire Indian Cinema for movies like Satya,Vaastav,Hera Pheri,Black Friday & a few others which have raw original ideas & have still made a great impact.Why can't people think out of the box instead of blatantly lifting movies & tagging them as "inspired" & "remake"?

This is seriously pathetic.

[victor_rambo]

It probably because of such copycat-ting that Indians pirate mp3s and DVD rips without much concern. After all they know the guyz who want the money have not made it, so whay pay to them if all they do is blatant copying?