Plot Outline: A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before [and later on falls in love with some man too, from whom which she obviously hides the fact that she won’t live for long] (courtesy:imdb.com)
So now it kind of makes sense why the lead character of the Bollywood production acted so faggishly - he was aping some female character!
Just stumbled across this by chance. I knew originality was extinct in Bollywood. Pakistani gaanon aur Hollywood storyline ko rip karkey make an obcene thousand-thumkaa-a-minute flick!
^ I knew that… n the movie wasn’t all that great either in the first place.
There’s nothing wrong in taking inspiration esp. if its based on a true story… as long as credits are appropriately ascribed.
The last Indian flick I saw… “Black” was a superbly executed venture :k: inspired from Hellen Keller’s life story - I know some say its a copy of the Miracle Worker, but I contend otherwise since its based on a person’s life… so there’s got to be similarities.
Bollywood [like Indians themselves] can only copy and improvise the code. Talk about originality and the best they can come up with are those bizarre Naagin and Janam crap films -- I mean come on, lets learn to call crap crap.
There's no such thing as originality and individuality in South Asian culture period. Be it movies, fashion, the way we live our lives, breaking apart from the norm is generally frowned down upon.
^ Bollybuster started this thread to malign Indian Bollywood industry, not to have a wide-ranging intellectual discourse on South Asian culture of plagiarism. Throw all your anday tamatar at Bollywood right now, and Bollybuster will be happy. Every thing else is off-topic.
Umar Talib, I agree there’s nothing wrong in taking inspiration, but if most of your movies are “inspired” it just shows a lack of competence on the part of the film makers. This inspiration thing has been carried too far actually – mostly we’re talking abt localised versions of similar storylines. And replacing the Hollywood “heroine” with Shahrukh Khan. The two aren’t very different, biologically either, I presume? I mean they act the same way…
And yes Faisal, that was some clever spy work you did there, revealing my true intentions. But you’d only make me happy if you blow that darned industry off the face of this planet – Anday timaatar are just not enough.
