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By Vickey Lalwani Š2005 Bollyvista.com |
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Murder was 'lifted' or 'inspired' from Richard Gere's Unfaithful |
Phoren maal ka chaska! We want their clothes, cars, perfumes... and films too! Creativity in Bollywood has gone for a toss. Take a Hollywood plot, add some glycerin drama and term it as emotions, sprinkle in pelvic-n-pectoral gyrations, change the middle only slightly and the end a bit more (thereby spoil it, more often than not). Shake well, and you've got a Bollywood movie propagated as 'hatke'!
Despite the string of cold turkeys at the turnstiles, there's a whole school of thought upholding remakes. 'Trust the process of reverse engineering (remaking a film, especially a Hollywood one) rather than doing something indigenous', has become the mantra of Bollywood. Are we becoming clones of Hollywood? Why then do some bigwigs of our film industry squirm when labeled as members of Bollywood?
A large chunk of Hindi films have taken off (read 'lifted') from Angrezi flicks, films like 'Ghulam' ('On The Waterfront') 'Raaz' ('What Lies Beneath'), 'Kasoor' ('The Jagged Edge'), 'Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai' ('My Best Friend's Wedding'), 'Kaante' ('Reservoir Dogs' & 'The Usual Suspect'), 'Awara Paagal Deewana' ('The Whole Nine Yards'), 'Qayamat' ('The Rock'), 'Murder' ('Unfaithful'), 'Aitraaz' ('Disclosure')... The list is long and getting longer... |
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