Hindi ripoffs
My first 18 years of life - until before I left home for Kharagpur - were spent watching less than 18 films in all, or at least the ones I can remember. Most of that was because of the complete isolation of Dhanbad from the rest of the VCR-totting, movie-rental-strewn world. I caught up with the times a bit at KGP, with the weekly screenings at the Technology Film Society. The real speed-up happened only in the last few years since I've joined Netflix - about 1200 movies in just short of 4 years.
Now that Soma likes a lot of Hindi movies, it's often that I see a movie halfway through, and realize it's a copy - clone, derived, or influenced - from another movie that I've already seen, most often in English. So here's a chart of all the ones that I have mapped, with some help from the comments to this post, and lots of help from this page on Bollywood.com.
* May not be a frame-by-frame ripoff, but inspired by.
2 Comments:
Did you know that 'Masoom' (the movie with Nasaruddin Shah, Shabana Asmi and li'l Jugal Hansraj) is a frame-to-frame copy of an old english movie called 'Man, woman and child'. I loved 'Masoom' and it made me cry everytime I watched it.. I was real disappointed when I watched the original to figure that our bollywood version didn't have anything original about it.
September 14, 2006 7:31 AM
and now i find out ..its based on a book by Eric Segal..guess then thats okie.
September 14, 2006 7:35 AM
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