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.

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'."

"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."

]]> http://www.bollycat.com/movies/naina http://www.bollycat.com/movies/naina M N O P Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:08:37 -0500 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.

]]> http://www.bollycat.com/bollywood/2007/10/bollywood-probes-sex-trade-yet-again/ http://www.bollycat.com/bollywood/2007/10/bollywood-probes-sex-trade-yet-again/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:52:53 -0500 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.

]]> http://www.bollycat.com/movies/ek-ajnabee http://www.bollycat.com/movies/ek-ajnabee E F G H Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:15:58 -0500 Winston Spear btw, performing during a segment on the show "Comedy Inc.")

]]> http://www.bollycat.com/bollywood/2007/10/so-canadian-like-bollywood-eh/ http://www.bollycat.com/bollywood/2007/10/so-canadian-like-bollywood-eh/ Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:45:05 -0500 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.
]]> http://www.bollycat.com/movies/partner http://www.bollycat.com/movies/partner M N O P Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:49:04 -0500 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.
]]> http://www.bollycat.com/bollywood/2007/10/is-celina-jaitley-headed-to-hollywood/ http://www.bollycat.com/bollywood/2007/10/is-celina-jaitley-headed-to-hollywood/ Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:14:12 -0500 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.

]]> http://www.bollycat.com/movies/phir-milenge http://www.bollycat.com/movies/phir-milenge M N O P Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:02:18 -0500

Aishwarya Rai was recently spotted in Boston, and although she was spotted with a very serious t-shirt-in-tucker husband Abhishek Bachchan, this is no honeymoon. Infact she was there shooting her upcoming movie, Pink Panther 2. But boy, has she gotten faatttt!

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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

]]> http://www.bollycat.com/bollywood/2007/10/rgv-after-nisha-kothari/ http://www.bollycat.com/bollywood/2007/10/rgv-after-nisha-kothari/ Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:37:12 -0500 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. http://www.bollycat.com/bollywood/2007/10/whats-pooja-chitgopekar-made-about/ http://www.bollycat.com/bollywood/2007/10/whats-pooja-chitgopekar-made-about/ Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:04:38 -0500 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!

]]> http://www.bollycat.com/bollywood/2007/10/mahima-doing-a-boob-pushup/ http://www.bollycat.com/bollywood/2007/10/mahima-doing-a-boob-pushup/ mahima boobs Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:32:36 -0500
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