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.

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'."

"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."

Continue reading Naina...

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.

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.

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.

A noble man comes to a teach a bunch of brats some civility and self-respect. Not that he doesn't succeed, but he faces a lot of hurdles in his quest and gets involved in the students personal lives etc. etc. etc.

And then one day the big question comes... should he stay or should he leave? That's a question Mahesh Bhatt should be asking himself... I mean, the guy literally powers a whole category here at BollyCat.