Come on Bollywood, stop being copy-cats!
Last night, I watched a recent Hindi movie from Bollywood. The movie started off well and I was enjoying it. However, just about 40 minutes into the movie, I realized that the core plot of the movies has been taken from an English (Hollywood) movie that I had seen a few years back. This was nothing new in fact --- perhaps I should have expected it right from the start of the movie.
Why do our directors and producers shy away from working on original concepts and plots? Is there a dearth of new ideas for good stories at home? I certainly do not think so. Not in a country of a billion people who speak hundreds of different languages; who bring with them layers and layers of culture and history; and who, by very nature, like to relate to stories of their own almost all the time. So why do our movie makers have to look westward and steal plots, sometimes even entire scene sequences?
Come on guys, be daring and original. We do not want copy cats.
Why do our directors and producers shy away from working on original concepts and plots? Is there a dearth of new ideas for good stories at home? I certainly do not think so. Not in a country of a billion people who speak hundreds of different languages; who bring with them layers and layers of culture and history; and who, by very nature, like to relate to stories of their own almost all the time. So why do our movie makers have to look westward and steal plots, sometimes even entire scene sequences?
Come on guys, be daring and original. We do not want copy cats.
posted by observer @ 7:20 AM
1 Comments:
At 4:30 PM,
nemo said…
Dear Observer,
I personally don't see anything wrong in copying ideas. Afterall humans are called "meme machines" for a reason. Even the so called "novel ideas" have their sources of inspiration. Just that in a lot of cases we don't know about the source.
So, as long as bollywood doesn't copy movies scene to scene and adapts the script to indian context, I really have no objection. Afterall, majority of indian population doesn't even watch hollywood movies.
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