The Burning Train a bollycat of The Towering Inferno
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
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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.
this film is also xerox copy of THE BULLET TRAIN, that was the japenese movie.
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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hey what are you hell bent on proving out here...every 3rd man out there on the streets of India now knows which movie is copied and which is an original..i can go ahead and add greaqt many names to that list which have missed either watching or mentioning..but for a change do you have an iota of idea which hindi films inspired the west... DIRTY DOZEn made in 1967 was inspired from V.shantaram's DO AAANKHEN BARAH HAATH. The so called path breaking director steven spielberg copied his E.T from satyajit ray's script 'Bankubabur Bandhu'. You talk about hindi filmmakers not mentioning their source but a man like spielberg vehemently denied copying ray's scripts when in reality Ray's script had been doing the rounds of hollywood studios since 1960's.....get the picture from both ways
and before u start bnlaming the burning train for plagiarism get you facts right...i dont know why nobody has noticed it but the burning train wanst a copy from the west...on the contrary the 1985 oscar nominated film RUNAWAY TRAIN(starring jon voight) gets its theme from the burning train..watch this movie and check for urself..the only difference is the train aint burning(so its not a blatant copy) but the brakes have failed due to full throttle being jammed and the uncoupling of rear locomotives part...the police officer entering the train by a chopper like danny tried in the hindi version....that has 'burning train' written all over it and yet we dont go overboard making claims...watch the hindi version again and then watch the english version before u make any comments....and to set the record straight Burning train was released in 1980, Runaway train was released in 1985...VOILA!