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The Burning Train a bollycat of The Towering Inferno

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Most likely the makers of this BollyCat found the word 'inferno' too hard for their target audiences to comprehend, but they still stuck with the language, calling their copy, "The Burning Train". How original?

Because the tallest skyscraper being built in India would have been unimaginable and since the country actually does have the world's largest rail network, replacing the "Glass Tower" to India's fatest train, aptly named the "Super Express", really made sense in the Bollywood version. The rest of the storyline remained the same: instead of each floor catching fire and the protagonist rescuing people and moving them from floor to floor, we have train compartment to train compartment. And his sidekick helps from the outside, becoming a railways engineer instead of the firefighter of the original.

And yes, the model train getting burnt in the end is laughable at best.

The Burning Train [1980] IMDB Info Page
The Towering Inferno [1976] IMDB Info Page

3 Comments

moyal said:

Completely different ideas. There is a difference between sving people from trains and train catching the fire. Its a very different storyline. Also there is a technique and idea in saving people from train and building. So u tried hard but for nothing. Too bad.

Akhil Panchal said:

this film is also xerox copy of THE BULLET TRAIN, that was the japenese movie.

Avneet said:

Hey this site also looks like a copycat of Bollywood equivalency list at: http://loscha.livejournal.com/950435.html

They also name this movie incorrectly as equivalent of the The Towering Inferno!!!

:)))

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