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One of last year’s most appreciated movie, ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA is no doubt a worth watching film having some great moments to offer which should ideally be taken as few essentials lessons of life.
The film has been appreciated widely by both critics as well as the viewers for its novel concept and brilliant treatment which is at par with the standards of World Cinema. But unfortunately this HIT movie by the talented director Zoya, is also associated with few major downers related with the LIFTED status of its basic content & one publicity poster.
Talking about one of its posters first, it was really awful to see that it has been directly lifted from the poster of an English flick “LORDS OF DOGTOWN” (2005).
The film hugely inspired me and many more fellow moviegoers with its brilliant, meditative kind of execution in its various adventures. And it was really disheartening to know that the basic plot of few friends going out for some adventures (including the sky diving one) was all hugely inspired from a Hit English movie called “FANDANGO” released in 1985.
No doubt, ZNMD is a great film in itself wherein Zoya has added a lot of her own into it like the under-sea & bull facing adventure along with the interesting love angles introduced in the script. The well written and directed insertions surely put the movie into the group of those spellbinding inspired films which go beyond or surpass their Originals. But still the unexpected sad part of the story remains that the director and her team hided their actual inspirational sources from the public and tried to present it as their own Original baby in a fake manner.
Though many friends would like to give these inspirations an excuse, due to the otherwise hugely likable content of the movie. But as I see it, such straight take offs from foreign source should have been clearly declared by the team in their media interviews which could have avoided this shocking kind of disappointed felt by all the fans (including myself), who really loved the movie.
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After an inspired “Black & White”, Subhash Ghai’s latest offering “Yuvraaj” also has a plot similar to Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman starrer & Oscar Winner “Rainman”. The only novelty in Salman starrer is the third additional brother as compared to the two in “Rainman”. And also instead of the exciting Casino sequences, the director moves the story more towards a family & love drama. However, it still runs on the same outline where a rich father dies giving everything to his autistic son and now the other brother(s) has to win his heart to survive and get a part of the wealth.
Interestingly before “Rainman” there was a movie made in our own Bollywood on the same plot featuring Guru Dutt. It was “Sautela Bhai” which released in 1962. Here Guru Dutt played the innocent brother and Raaj Kumar played the brother who was deprived of all the riches.
No doubt, it sounds tough but is quite possible that somehow “Sautela Bhai” was the first original one and all the later versions followed it. Having said this, I again fondly remember the masters of Indian Cinema in the Golden Era with high regards.
But the fact still remains, that if you are asked to rate the best one out of all, the answer would be same from all sides and that’s “Rainman”. The movie has the power to make you sit and praise the performance of Dustin Hoffman without any hesitation. He simply wins your heart with his lovable act. In fact after watching “Rainman”, I became his fan and began searching for all his earlier movies featuring.
“Sautela Bhai” can be rated second, though it may be the most original one and
“Yuvraaj” comes third with not so impressive interpretation of the story.
(Apart from these, another movie inspired from “Rainman” syndrome was “Hum Dono” starring Rishi Kapoor and Nana Patekar).
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1. Zanjeer (1973) – References of “Death Rides A Horse” (1967) & Dirty Harry (1971) 2. Zindagi (1976) - Based on the classic “Make Way For Tomorrow” (1937). 3. Zalzala (1988) – Close to “Mackenna's Gold” (1969) 4. Zakhmee Aurat (1988) – Highly inspired from “I Spit On Your Grave” (1978) 5. Zulm Ki Hukumat (1992) – Godfather (1972) 6. Yeh Dillagi (1994) – Sabrina (1954) 7. Yaarana (1995) - Sleeping With The Enemy (1991) 8. Yes Boss (1997) – Basic Plot taken from “For Love Or Money” (1993) with references of “The Apartment” (1960) 9. Yugpurush (1998) - Not entirely but has its basic plot inspired from “Rain man” (1988) 10. Zehreela (2001) - Cape Fear (1991) 11. Yaadein (2001) - Takes the basic idea of the family saga of three daughters from “Fiddler On The Roof” (1971). 12. Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai (2002) – On the lines of “American Pie” (1999) & “Eskimo Limon” (Israel) (1978) 13. Zameen (2003) – References of “Air Force One” (1997) 14. Zeher (2005) - Out of Time (2003) 15. Yakeen (2005) – Shattered (1991) 16. Zinda (2006) - Oldboy (Korea) (2003) 17. Zokkomon (2011) - Its main story plot borrows heavily from the one we have already seen in a well made children film by Vishal Bhardwaj’s “Makdee” (2002). 18. Zindagi Tere Naam(2012)- All inspired from “The Notebook” (2004).
(Updated in July 2012)
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Maniratnam's "Yuva" is said to be a path breaking movie with a different theme, new to the Hindi Film Industry, where one incident (or accident) is seen from three different angles, interconnecting various characters of the story.
But this basic plot of the movie has some interesting similarities with "Amores Perros" (Spanish) (2000), where also a road accident is there, interconnecting different characters of the movie coming from contrasting backgrounds. But this world famous Spanish masterpiece is very bold and hard hitting movie as compared to “Yuva” and the similarity rests there only.
Moreover, the concept of using the same sequence in the narration from different perspectives was first seen in Shyam Benegal’s “Suraj Ka Saatwan Ghoda” in 1993. There also you find a particular scene coming again on the screen for more than once. But each time the scene is repeated, it has a different meaning as seen through the eyes of different characters in the storyline.
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