MalFUnXiON wrote:
Kaun is very very loosely based on Ittefaq. If you've seen both movies you'll realize that besides the fact that they're about a stranger and a woman in a house, a murder, and the movies being very short, the movies are very different.
The gist of my post was about directors that specialize in making frame by frame copies of films (the Bhatt clan, Sanjay Gupta). It's fine to be inspired by an idea; it's a totally different thing to copy a film (and add some variations).
Movies like Kaun may be inspired by an idea, but they hardly qualify as a copy. I also differentiate between the terms copy and remake, but I won't get into that.
As for Aankhen, I thought it was based on the Gujrati play, so I guess the play was a copy of the Hollywood film.
And I see nothing wrong with basing films on plays and books as long as they give credit (that's not copying imo). In fact, Bollywood should base more films on books and plays so atleast the screenplay is coherent.
Hmmm....I do get your point....actually I dont mind attempts like KAUN at all for at least the treatment is different and RGV deserves 100% marks for that...except sometimes he just gets too goofy with his obsession with the horror/scary genre that he will simply try to re-interpret old fare....he's so incredibly talented when it comes to inspiring his crew to write truly original stuff (SATYA, COMPANY even JUNGLE)....and same as you I hate it when Mahesh Bhatt proteges, pretending to be intellectual with spectacles balancing tantalizingly on nose-bridges, give us shit like SUNGHURSH (and a bad second half at that!) in the name of the audience asking for it!
Yeah more for people to adapt/be inspired/remake anything from contemporary writing or the classics (not the ostentious way DEVDAS was!)....I wish someone like Vikram Seth or Amitav Ghosh or Shashi Tharoor are hired by some of these younger makers to write an English even Hinglish script reflective of current times.....THAT will be a day to look forward to!
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Also, you should note that (as Congress said), the South has been sending a lot of undeserved entries for the Oscars over quite a few years just because the deciding committee was based in Chennai. Finally Earth 1947 was sent, but it fizzled out. And then Lagaan was sent...Chennai had its fair share of years and it sent total crap. Jeans was terribly made fun of by The Straits Times here in Singapore when it was announced as the most expensive Indian film ever (not to mention, being an Oscar submission) . I was extremely embarrassed. BTW, I have to say this, Shankar is one retarded filmmaker. What did the Tamil audience find in that movie??