Karthik Calling Karthik (2010) and its possible inspirations.

The main inspiration for karthik calling karthik,i believe,is the movie fight club.

I believe the mechanist could also be am inspiration. I won\'t go into the details, but if you look at the main events of the story ita pretty similar.

I've watched the complete movie and in no way it seems like its inspired or plagiarized. Not every movie has to be a rip off. This movie gives its own vibes. Ideas maybe similar but I get such kind of ideas in my mind everday so why not a script writer can have 'em? Also, its not something that much rethinkable. 

I felt sad as i got to know that this movie flopped. It's just the problem with the audience. Indians have pretty dumb audience.

Hi, I believe that there is an interpretation of this movie which makes the ending more plausible. Here's the interpretation: Karthik actually succeeded in committing suicide at the first half of the movie, when he hears his phone ring for the first time. He had indeed died after living such a harsh life. What follows next is this death dream/purgatory/dmt trip (dmt released in brain after death), in which he lives the life which he wanted to live.

It's like the "occurrence at owl creek bridge" by Bierce. This dream ends with him actually committing suicide. In the ending scene, we see that he gets a call from his psychiatrist wishing him happy birthday, recall that it was his birthday when he was trying to commit suicide during the early part of the movie. Also the solved Rubik's cube in the ending of the scene reflected the solved Rubik's cube near the phone when he first received his call.

I believe that this last part was heaven, the atmosphere, lights and his clothes were shining white (along with the white walls). He had successfully passed his test in the purgatory by remaining truthful even at the direst moments.

Thanks for reading.

Loved your intepretation Sunil