Plagiarism in Bollywood: Chori mera kaam! their film that is subsequent Kasoor greatly from Jagged Edge.
Monojit Lahiri investigates Bollywood’s art that is skilled of along the years without batting an eyelid
Monojit Lahiri
If replica could be the best type of flattery, then no industry on the world can match the greatest movie creating nation of this type. Their relentless, constant & shameless lifting, copying & getting motivated – by Hollywood movies and today other sources too – is a vintage situation of wide-eyed adoration blended with brain-dead effort at jugaad when it comes to short-cut to rake in the bucks. Profit some, lose some, transcreation, Indianisation or frame-to-frame zerox, Bollywood has mastered the creative art of bromiding off their movies. Don’t think us? Here’s a fast peep into a few of their masterpieces, across years, provides ample proof.
Forget Ashok Kumar’s Mr. X lifted through the Invincible guy for the 50’s, the present years have actually witnessed a tsunami for this disease that is rampant. There have been no ifs & buts in Vikram Bhatt’s Fareb, a salute to An Unlawful Entry. Suitably charged by seeing the Kazan-Brando classic regarding the Waterfront, Bhatt hit the вЂinspired’ mode, once more, along with his variation, Ghulam.
Bright and razor-sharp Tanuja Chandra too must plead accountable of this type too.
Both her films that are early Dushman and Sanghursh had been compliments to Eye for Eye and Silence regarding the Lambs correspondingly. Even the gifted Mansoor Khan’s Akele Hum . had Kramer v/s Kramer written all over and wasn’t Josh a Bollywood form of the Westside that is fantastic Story?
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