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Speed a bollycat of Cellular & Nick of Time

2007-10-20T05:12:25Z

Director Vikram Bhatt's career is largely enthused with Hollywood rip-offs and after countless failures, this release simply adds to the list. It's a classical example where a filmmaker's amateurish attempt of rehashing couple of Hollywood flicks has gone berserk. 'Speed' is a shameful imitation from Hollywood's fast paced action packed thriller 'Cellular' in its first half, while its plot and climax in the second half get its inspiration from another Hollywood hit 'Nick of Time' (which was earlier, rehashed with mediocre results in Shahrukh Khan's 'Badshah').

Firstly, why the film was titled "Speed" when there is no relevance of word "speed" either with its plot, theme or characters? After illogically envisaged 'Red', it's another flick from Vikram Bhatt which has English title to lure urban viewers but shows no relevance with the subject or concept of the film.

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Cellular » IMDB Info Page
Nick of Time » IMDB Info Page

Mujhse Shaadi Karogi a bollycat of Anger Management & Meet the Parents

2007-10-19T15:14:59Z

15 submitters noted this to be a BollyCat of Anger Management, 6 said it copied Meet the Parents, while another 7 suggested that it ripped off both of those. Based on these numbers, we can safely conclude that the movie is a mish-mosh of the two originals. Additionally one person suggested that the father of the bride character in MSK was based on Steve Martin's role in Father of the Bride. Being a David Dhavan movie and the fact that the Steve Martin character and Robert De Niro's Jack in Meet the Parents shared similarities of their own, we don't really doubt that.

Anyway, the protagonist is our BollyCat definitely has an "anger" problem. But we guess what really makes this a BollyCat is the final scene where the guy proposes to his girlfriend at a ~~baseball~~ cricket game. But according to our submitters, there's plenty of stuff in between directly lifted from Anger Management. Remember the scene where Ben Stiller breaks the urn at the dinner table? Well the same scene is in MSK.

We'll summarize this by quoting one of our submitters, "Take the story from 'Anger Management', add a few comedy scenes from 'Meet the parents', include a few beautiful and well-shot songs and what to you have? 'Mujhse Shaadi Karoge'."

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Anger Management » IMDB Info Page
Meet the Parents » IMDB Info Page

Thank you to Shad and the following people for letting us know about this: Tony, Jigar Doshi, Kamal, Sachin Deshpande, Den, Jaspreet, Nishant Joshi, Bootham, Samir Kotadia, Sanket, Akaash, Anonymous User, Abhishek Seth, Ranjan, Rupali, Bea, Shilpi, Raman Garg, AM - Vish, Kalhonaaho01, Baby Face, Sachin Mirokhe, Dinesh Mehta, S.H. Shankar, Aman Virdy, Argha Sen, and Terminator.

First Boobjob admission in Bollywood

2007-10-17T23:26:25Z

Rakhi Sawant isn't all that, except of course for that huge doctor-given rack of hers. How do we know? She admitted to having implants on the popular Bollywood talk show, Koffee with Karan. And just to remove any doubts are to what little she said on that show, in an interview with an Indian tabloid she added, “I was 32 back then, now I am 36. God never endowed me, so a doctor helped.” Good for you girl. Her interview and some hot shots after the break.

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Naina a bollycat of The Eye

2007-10-17T00:08:37Z

"Jian Gui" or "The Eye" came out in 2002, and then in 2005 came out "Naina" or... you guessed it... "The Eye". The story is about a woman who receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world. Here's what one of our submitters, Nitin Kumar Gupta, had to say about this BollyCat:

"Frame by frame, scene by scene, dialog by dialog copy. Even the characters have been made up to look as close to the original movie characters as possible. Small props like staplers haven't been spared and even the smallest jokes have been copied. The movie looks like someone did a Hindi dubbing of the original and replaced the faces of the actors using a computer. They have shamelessly given themselves credit for plot, screenplay, dialogues, art design, music etc when everything has been lifted from the original Hong Kong movie. A disgrace to Indian movie makers and cinema."
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Interestingly enough, Hollywood is also doing a remake of "Jian Gui" called, yet again, "The Eye", coming out in 2008. But you know what the difference between Naina and this Hollywood production is? Hollywood is actually crediting (and paying) Jo Jo Yuet-chun Hui the screenwriter for the original in the writing credits.

Thanks to Aditya, George Thomas, Ashutosh, Bootham, Mayura, Akshay Gupta, Nitin Kumar Gupta, Vikas Bhatt, Ashesh, & Umang Doshi for letting us know about this eye-catcher!

Naina » IMDB Info Page
Jian Gui » IMDB Info Page

Bollywood probes sex trade yet again

2007-10-16T22:52:53Z

NEW DELHI (IANS): Lives of the women of the street have been recounted in myriad Hindi films but it is a subject that the dream merchants never seem to get weary of. Joining the long list of films based on sex-workers will be 'Laaga Chunari Mein Daag' that is slated for Friday release.

The film, being produced by Bollywood's biggest dream merchants Yash Raj Films, hopes to push the envelope further by portraying the life of a small town girl who willingly chooses sex trade as a career.

]]> Hindi cinema's interpretation of the so-called oldest profession in the world has been ever evolving. While earliest films like 'Pyaasa' painted a picture of abject tragedy, films like 'Umrao Jaan', 'Pakeezah' and 'Devdas' depicted courtesans as women with refined sense of music and poetry. Their exploitation was often glossed over and they came across as tragic, gorgeous women of taste who sacrificed their lives for the men they loved.

Shoma A. Chatterji, author of 'Woman: A Study of the Portrayal of Women in Indian Cinema', explains that the virtual domination of male filmmakers in Bollywood then had meant that patriarchy and markets dictated how sex-workers and the politics of prostitution are projected in the Hindi film industry.

More recently, Madhur Bhandarkar's 'Chandni Bar', Sudhir Mishra's 'Chameli', Manisha Koirala's 'Market' Deepak Shivdasani's 'Julie' and Kalpana Lazmi's 'Chingaari' have tried to demystify and deglamourise the lives of sex workers.

In 'Chandini Bar', Tabu performed the sexy dance sequences inside the club much like any mechanical, routine job and worked hard to educate her child. Kareena Kapoor in 'Chameli' was a foul-mouthed young woman, who is cynical about relationships but knows how to invest her hard-earned money for a secure future. For all her curtness she still has a soft side to her as she tries to educate a young boy and prevents him from taking to vices like smoking.

Ek Ajnabee a bollycat of Man on Fire

2007-10-15T22:15:58Z

This movie was submitted a cool 27 times before our submission form crapped out. So yeah, can 27 people be all wrong?

We are not sure why people got so upset as to report this BollyCat en-masse, our unscientific guess is that they are all fans of Amitabh Bacchan and simply disappointed that he would choose to take part in such a low class adventure. Well, whatever. The ~~stories are~~ story is as follows:

A burnt-out alcoholic ex-super-macho secret-agent is hired to protect the family of a wealthy businessman. He dislikes the job but has no other choices. Soon he befriends the little girl he is meant to protect and lo' and behold the bad guys kidnap her. Now our protagonists only choice is to right his wrongs and bring the girl back to safety. Expect some usual masala twists and turns in the Bollywood version.

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Man on Fire » IMDB Info Page

Thanks to Mark and the following people for submitting this: Bollywood Inspector, Shad, Surabh Shastry, Jam, Kaustubh, Bajwa, Dushyant Motiani, Jaydip Bhattacharya, E Z E, Bijan Kumar Mahapatra, Manee, Rana Pal, Anonymous, Vikash Singh, Raymond, Tired of Copy, Kalhonaaho01, Parag, Shrabani, Tempting, Binod Sahoo, Raza, Luke Kenny, Asgie, Ritu Gupta and Zehra.

So Canadians like Bollywood, eh?

2007-10-15T04:45:05Z

Yes this video is old, but it still makes us giggle inside a little, and feel like we are in a Subash Ghai movie running in green fields somewhere in West Punjab, everytime we watch it. So here it is for your enjoyment... (That's Winston Spear btw, performing during a segment on the show "Comedy Inc.")

Partner a bollycat of Hitch

2007-10-15T03:49:04Z

The only thing different (or missing) here was not using a person's name for the title. Partner... Why not Ajay, Kumar or Salman? Wouldn't that be more befitting for this Hitch copy? Anyway, as far the two movies are concerned, they both follow a dating guru who guarantees a girl for losers like Govinda or Kevin James. Added is the usual pinch of song and dance according to taste.

But there's another thing that's seems unworldly for this case: Hollywood is actually suing - or thinking about suing - the makers of Partner. We believe this is a major shift in Hollywood's policy towards unofficial Bollywood remakes. And the biggest reason is Bollywood's ever growing market overseas. Think about it, Sony would make much more money (they're making nothing now!) if the the producers of Partner had actually paid Sony to do a remake, or better yet Sony Pictures India had done it on it's own? That's a no brainer. We don't really expect Bollywood producers to touch their ears and stop copying just yet though... I mean there are so many good Hollywood movies they are looking forward to ~~copying~~ watching.

Hat tip: Curry Bear & Jerry M.
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Parner » IMDB Info Page

Is Celina Jaitley headed to Hollywood?

2007-10-14T04:14:12Z

Fomer Miss India Universe, Celina Jaitley is apparently signing Hollywood movies left and right (if one is to believe the buzz in mainstream Bollywood blogosphere). After high-level investigation of our own, we have learned that she's confirmed to appear in "Love Has No Language", a New Zealand production about inter-racial ~~dating~~ love. A 'technical advisor' of the LOTR trilogy, Mr. Ken Kahn, will be directing the film. The movie is already under production.

Then there's "The Quest of Sheherzade", based on a tale from Arabian Nights. According to the movies IMDB page, as of this writing, she's the only confirmed cast member.
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Phir Milenge a bollycat of Philadelphia

2007-10-11T01:02:18Z

This Salman Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Shilpa Shetty starrer copied the plot of the Oscar winning movie Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington which revolves around society and the implications of having HIV-AIDS. Shilpa played Tom Hanks's part, Salman Khan was Antonio Banderas, while Abhishek played Denzel's part. Philadelphia follows a man with AIDS who is fired by a conservative law firm because of his condition, who then hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit. But like a few other BollyCats, the sexes have been changed here.

Kalhonaaho01 adds, "The storylines share their differences but this is one of the most blatant cases of plagarism I had even seen. get this, 'Phir Milenge' uses one of the Deleted Scenes from the Philadelphia DVD where the AIDS carrying protagonist tries to put down some reasonable rules for dropping the lawsuit to no avail.

Also submitted by Vidushi, Palaniappa M, Alicia, Bollywood Fan, Amin, Rip Off Detector & Gaurav Gothoskar.

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Philadelphia » IMDb Info Page

Aishwarya in Beantown

2007-10-10T00:27:34Z

RGV after Nisha Kothari?

2007-10-08T23:37:12Z

Despite the "Aag" debacle, Ram Gopal Verma is still one of the most respected directors in Bollywood. But his bouts of unreasonable behaviour have irked some unit members of his latest film "Go".

A member of the unit said on condition of anonymity: "Ram Gopal Verma used to arrive on the sets late. Then he would say that he wanted to discuss a few things with leading lady Nisha Kothari. The two would enter Nisha's make-up van and come out only after 2-3 hours. This happened for 4 to 5 consecutive days, resulting in a delay in shooting of the climax of the movie by four days." The delay used to disturb everybody on the sets as all preparations had to be kept on hold for hours. Each delay would add to the previous day's delay and put more and more pressure on the cast and crew of the film, which has newcomer Gautam Gupta opposite Nisha

]]> The source added: "Every time RGV used to disappear into Nisha's make-up van, things would get worse outside as Gautam and the rest of the unit members would be ready for the shot. Reportedly, Ramuji and Nisha's parleys haunted their shoot at Goa too. "Everybody had then dismissed it as a one-time incident which won't recur. But then it did, not once, but many times," the source lamented. Nisha has been one of Ram Gopal Verma's favourite heroines. Rumours were also doing the rounds that Verma is picking and dropping Nisha home a bit too often. What's cooking between the mentor and his discovery?

Via SantaBanta

What's Pooja Chitgopekar mad about?

2007-10-08T20:04:38Z

Is it us or does Pooja Chitgopekar, the 2007 Miss India winner, have only one facial expression. The photopgraher could have just focused on her body from the second shot on, and photoshopped her face in from the first photo.

Mahima doing a boob push-up?

2007-10-07T21:32:36Z

This is a rare scene in Bollywood, and it actually might be a first. Mahima Chaudry looks pretty mad in this clip, and she's probably headed over to take revenge on the bad guys for killing her family or boy friend. But this is not your regular Hollywood-style pushup, it's a tamed down lower-your-collar version of it. And here's something we didn't know: according to a comment on the MetaCafe video page, she's a "call girl" @ $1,200.00 a night... not bad!

Welcome to BollyCataBlog!

2007-10-03T21:15:26Z

BollyCataBlog is the newest addition to BollyCat. This blog will primarily focus on two things in Bollywood that we didn't previously cover: Songs and Sex!

So stay tuned.