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Updated on: 06 February,2011 07:42 AM IST |
Subhash K Jha |

Days of Hollywood rip-offs are gone

Days of Hollywood rip-offs are gone

Mallika Sherawat's 2004 film, Murder was based on Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful

Which is why three sequels to very successful Hindi filmsu00a0-- Sanjay Gupta's 2002 Kaante, Anurag Basu's 2002 erotic drama, Murder and David Dhawan's 2007 comedy, Partneru00a0-- all copies of Hollywood movies, have decided to go for a complete makeover to avoid the charge of plagiarism.

Kaante was a scene-by-scene copy of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. In fact, Gupta has made a thriving career out ofu00a0 translocating foreign films into Hindi. Zinda, his last film, wasu00a0 a faithful adaptation of a Korean film, Oldboy.

However, Gupta's Kaante sequel, Khottey Sikkey, is an original. "Not one frame will be reminiscent of any foreign film. My days of borrowing plots are over," says Gupta.

Mohit Suri too has gone original for the sequel to Murder, which was a rip off of Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful.
"Back then it was easy to get away with murder. Today the American studios keep a tab on us. Murder worked because it reminded audiences of B R Chopra's film on adulteryu00a0-- Gumrah. Straightforward ripoffs of foreign films don't work," says Suri.

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