Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara's poster a rip-off

Bollywood has been borrowing ideas for years and the latest to join the bandwagon is ZNMD team. The poster of the trio’s soon-to-release movie, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ZNMD), appears to be a direct lift of that of the 2005 movie, Lords Of Dogtown.

So Bollywood has been borrowing ideas from Hollywood for years now. The latest to find their muse in the West is actor-producer Farhan Akhtar, co-producer Ritesh Sidhwani and director Zoya Akhtar. The poster of the trio’s soon-to-release movie,

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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ZNMD),

appears to be a direct lift of that of the 2005 movie,

Lords Of Dogtown

.

Interestingly, a woman, Catherine Hardwicke, called the shots on the English film that is a fictionalised take on a group of young skateboarders raised on the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys perfect their skateboarding skills in empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban

homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport that eventually turns them into American legends.

Zoya’s film, we are told, is about friends --- Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol and Farhan Akhtar — who go on a road trip through Spain. Let’s hope the coincidences between the two films end here. We tried contacting Ritesh Sidhwani, but he didn’t revert to our text messages.