Bollywood deja vu

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Updated On Mar 15, 2015 04:06 pm IST

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Take a great Hollywood sequence, add some desi tadka and call it a Bollywood original — it’s happened before, and it’s happening a lot again.Hey Bro: TwinsThe Ganesh Acharya starrer, directed by Ajay Chandok, has been slammed by many for being a rip-off from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito-starrer Twins (1988), a film which has a similar plot and revolves around twins who bear no resemblance to each other.The Ganesh Acharya starrer, directed by Ajay Chandok, has been slammed by many for being a rip-off from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito-starrer Twins (1988), a film which has a similar plot and revolves around twins who bear no resemblance to each other.(Text: Aditya Dogra )

Updated on Mar 15, 2015 04:06 pm IST

Take a great Hollywood sequence, add some desi tadka and call it a Bollywood original — it’s happened before, and it’s happening a lot again.Hey Bro: TwinsThe Ganesh Acharya starrer, directed by Ajay Chandok, has been slammed by many for being a rip-off from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito-starrer Twins (1988), a film which has a similar plot and revolves around twins who bear no resemblance to each other.The Ganesh Acharya starrer, directed by Ajay Chandok, has been slammed by many for being a rip-off from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito-starrer Twins (1988), a film which has a similar plot and revolves around twins who bear no resemblance to each other.(Text: Aditya Dogra )

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Updated on Mar 15, 2015 04:06 pm IST

Mr X: Hollow man Scenes in the teaser of the upcoming Emraan Hashmi-starrer (below) remind you instantly of Hollow Man (above it), if not of the ‘X’ logo from X-Men. But the film’s director, Vikram Bhatt, denies inspiration: “Indian filmmakers are trying to create original, quality stuff so it’s sad when someone tries to bring down your film based on a two-minute teaser. Just because Krrish flies, does it make him Spiderman?”

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Kick: MI 4: Ghost ProtocolThose who’d have seen Salman Khan’s runaway hit last year would’ve observed how his big leap off a building was a straight lift from the Tom Cruise-starrer, and the famous bike stunt from The Expendables 2. Some even thought the movie’s bus sequence was taken from Keanu Reeves-starrer, Speed (1994).

Updated on Mar 15, 2015 04:06 pm IST

Kick: MI 4: Ghost ProtocolThose who’d have seen Salman Khan’s runaway hit last year would’ve observed how his big leap off a building was a straight lift from the Tom Cruise-starrer, and the famous bike stunt from The Expendables 2. Some even thought the movie’s bus sequence was taken from Keanu Reeves-starrer, Speed (1994).

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NH 10: Black Widow, Eden LakeStarring Anushka Sharma and directed by Navdeep Singh, had come under fire for its poster which resembled that of Avengers character Black Widow, and now, critics have noticed that the plot and scenes are starkly similar to those of Micheal Fassbender’s 2008 movie, Eden Lake, also based on an adventure gone wrong.

Updated on Mar 15, 2015 04:06 pm IST

NH 10: Black Widow, Eden LakeStarring Anushka Sharma and directed by Navdeep Singh, had come under fire for its poster which resembled that of Avengers character Black Widow, and now, critics have noticed that the plot and scenes are starkly similar to those of Micheal Fassbender’s 2008 movie, Eden Lake, also based on an adventure gone wrong.

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