Suneel Darshan's comment about 'Pearl Harbor' being copied from 'Sangam' had me in splits! I didn't know Sangam was about WW II! Ah.. I get it.. both Pearl Harbor lifted the concept of a 'romantic pilot' from Sangam. By the same logic, 'Gladiator' must be a copy of 'Mughal-E-Azam'! With logic like that, we can guess the kind of thinking that would go into the making of a movie by such people. I'll let go his comment about My Big Fat Greek Wedding being lifted from DDLJ!
Well..the writer is certainly North Indian cos he never mentioned any stealing of Ideas into Hindi cinema from south. Infact even Hollywood did copy 'Liar Liar' from a telugu movie 'April 1st Vidudhala' which was released some 5 years before and as usual the writers of these articles only have selected knowledge for writing these articles.
You know it's very sad to read an article like this because it just makes me wonder if any of these filmmakers or directors and their producers are paying real attention to all that makes India? How about extracting material from the myriad of cultures, the religions, the folktales, the arts, the vast amount of literature that has yet to be appreciated, the biographies and lives of well known persons, the social and political ills that plague the country, the social and cultural mores that define the various traditions and history in general? Moreover, when Hollywood films are remade in Bollywood, they tend to be very insipid and shallow because the rules of Hollywood culture cannot be applied to Bollywood culture, so it becomes an oxymoron type of a filmneither here nor there.
If the trend of so called "inspiration" continues, Bollywood may face a more difficult challenge in the courts, especially if its aim is to become more global. Provided this case is true, individuals like Barbara Cartland may just be the beginning of sticking it to writers or filmmakers where it hurts. People all over the world are waking up to Indian cinema and being challenged in the legal trenches is not a good way to earn credibility and respectability worldwide. How can any filmmaker/writer/producer save face when his or her work is called plagiarism? What is even more disconcerting is that there are extremely talented actors and actresses in this cinematic culture and it is very unfortunate and painful to see how their talents are being wasted in films that dont amount to much. It is high time to wake up and smell the coffee because the brewing pot burned a long time ago.
I dont think pearl harbour was a copy of sangam and my big fat greek wedding a copy of DDLJ....this is the biggest BS i have heard. I think the americans are clever enough to come up with brilliant scripts on their own. bollywood has an inferiority complex and accusations like this dont fly. good try though!
It is really, really overdue. All these untalented , bollywood directors,writers and producers should be made to pay. It is a bit too much and they are even shameless to the extent of saying they are "inspired". Reading this word again and again, I am really really careful about using this word anywhere in my vocabulary..
