Monday 15 July 2013

Malayalam Movie Poster Copied/Inspired

Malayalam film " City of God (2011) " font style inspired from Hollywood's all time epic flick Ben-Hur(1959)"

Info :City of God (2011) is a Malayalam film directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery  and was written by Babu Janardhanan .The film's title written style/font inspired from Ben-Hur (1959) .This Malayalam film has the specialty  that it used 'Hyperlink Cinema format format which was , a technique first used by Legendary Bengali director 'Satyajit Ray' in his Kanchenjungha (1962 Although the name of this Malayalam film was same as Brazilian film  'City of God'.But there is no connection between both the films and only thing which is common between them was the usage of non-linear narrative structure.


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  • Malayalam film " Chapters (2012) "poster looks similar to Hollywood film "Closer (2004)"
Info : Chapters (2012) is a  Malayalam film which was the directional debut for  Sunil Ibrahim,such that  casting consisting of Sreenivasan, Nivin Pauly, Hemanth Menon, Vijeesh, Dhananjay, Vineeth Kumar, Shine, Aju Varghese, Riya Saira, Rejith Menon, Gauthami Nair, K. P. A. C. Lalitha and Lena.


Hollywood Copied /Inspired Posters


  1. Hollywood Comedy flick ' ‪ProblemChild‬ (1990) poster copied from Hollywood film ‪Parenthood‬(1989)'


  • Angelina Jolie 's Blockbuster action flick 'Wanted (2008)' poster inspired from another Hollywood flick 'Juncture (2007)'.

  • WWE ( Tv Show ) main event ' Backlash (2010)' official poster ripped off from 'Batman begins (2005)' .

  • Hollywood Horror flick " Fright Night (2011)" poster is similar to another Hollywood flick "No Country for Old men (2007)". Also Fright night was the official remake of older version with the same name released in 1985.
  •  Hollywood Inspires Hollywood : American teen (2008) is a documentary film which has a poster inspired from John Hughes’ 80′s teen classic "The Breakfast Club".

Bollywood Movie Posters Copied/inspired


  • Bollywood Blockbuster movie " Rowdy Rathore (2012)" poster inspiration from Chow Yun-fat's " The Replacement Killer(1998)".It has also been noted that this Bollywood version was perhaps the official remake of Telugu film " Vikramarkudu (2006)".


  • Bollywood Blockbuster movie" Ghajini (2008)" poster inspiration from Hollywood Superhero movie "Incredible Hulk (2008)"

  • Bollywood film " Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012)" poster inspred from Hollywood film " Total Recall (2008)".Many compared this to another Hollywood movie Special forces ,But the fact is that the film's design is similar but the pose is different compared to Hindi version.

  • Bollywood film " Aashiq Banaya Aapne (2005)" poster inspired from Korea film "3-Iron(2004)"


  • "Kites (2010)" poster inspired from "The Notebook (2004)".

  • "Heroine (2012)" poster ripped off from Mariah Carey photoshoot


  • Bollywood Superstar Akshay Kumar's " Khiladi 789 (2012)" poster inspired from Jackie Chan's Drunken Master.


  • Bollywood film " Mausam (2011)" poster inspired from Hollywood Blockbuster movie " Titanic (1997)".

  • Bollywood film "Will You Marry Me ?(2012)" official poster copied from Hollywood Tv Series "How I Met Your Mother (2005)".

  • Another Bollywood Plagiarism 


  • Bollywood film " Agent Vinod  (2012)" poster inspired from Rowan Atkinson's comedy film " Johnny English (2003)"


Tuesday 9 July 2013

Bollywood Copied / Inspired


  • 'Chak De India (2007)' was said to be inspired from the real life incidents of Mir Ranjan Negi, but it has many similarities with 2004 Hollywood movie Miracle. Many scenes, characters and dialogues were actually inspired or taken from Gavin O'Connor's film. Similarities between Chak De India & Miracle
  1.   If “Chak De! India” is based on the life of “Negi”, then “Miracle” was based on US hockey coach Herb Brooks.
  2.  In “Chak De! India” its girls hockey team brought together form different states of India. The girls are those talented ones who have lost hope of making it in the game.And in “Miracle” its the boys Ice hockey team wherein the boys are College going talented youngsters who are called from different colleges of various universities of U.S.A.
  3.   In both the movies the Coach is somehow blamed and could not see the Major Cup Win when he was playing and is now considered a looser.
  4.  The first scene where the Shahrukh meets the Selectors in their office for his selection as a Coach is quite similar to the same scene in “Miracle”.
  5.  The most astonishing is the “motivational sequence” where Shahrukh insists the girls to say that they are playing for India and not for their own states. This is also there in “Miracle” where Kurt Russell punishes his team till the boys say “I play for the United States of America.” Quite Amusing.
  6. Both films have players fighting with each other on state & status differences.
  7.  The main player in both the movies is the Goal Keeper, and in both the screenplays he/she has some problems at home in his/her personal life.

Although “Chak De India!” is a well made, entertaining and motivational movie, but the disappointment arises when the credits are given for the elements which are borrowed and inspired from the English Flicks.


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  •  Bollywood's Super hero film ' Ra One' plot concept ripped off from James Cameron's Terminator 2 & poster copied from Chris Nolan's Batman Begins

  •  Indian Superhero movie " Krrish (2006) " plot was the uncredited adaptation of Hollywood film " Paycheck (2003) " & Poster was borrowed from "Daredevil (2003)".Even the background moon was copied. It has also been noted that Ben Affleck was the star in both these Hollywood flicks.

Although it was the sequel to Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) , the whole story was heavily inspired from Paycheck (2003). Also this movie has its background 'theme' score borrowed heavily from the Havana composition of KennyG.

Few other Scene inspirations

  1. From the costume of Krrish to the fight scenes, to the 'bullet-time' special effects, there's so much uncomfortably similar to The Matrix.
  2. While Hrithik, following Naseerudin Shah's chopper, suddenly sees a kid on the road and a huge truck running towards him. The way, our Indian hero saves the kid has an uncanny resemblance to the way Spiderman did it

  • One of the highest grossing Bollywood film  'Barfi (2012 )' source & inspirations. Several Scenes of this flick were inspired from several films in the history of Hollywood. It is very difficult for us to point out. Given below shown are the list of Hollywood films where scenes were lifted for this Bollywood version .



  • Bollywood film Black (2005) directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and starred by Rani Mukerji and Amitabh Bachchan. Black revolves around a blind and deaf girl, and her relationship with her teacher who himself later develops Alzheimer's disease. The film draws inspiration from Helen Keller's life and struggle ' Miracle Worker(1962)'.


Notable achievements

  1. Black won the Best Feature Film in Hindi Award and Amitabh Bachchan received Best Actor award at the 53rd National Film Awards.
  2. Black made an all-time record at the Filmfare Awards by winning eleven awards


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Malayalam Movie Copied/Inspired

  • Malayalam Director Raaj Prabavathy Menon’s debuted film, "Buddy (2013)", is inspired by the Oscar  nominated American film" The Kids Are All Right (2010)".
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  • Malayalam Super hit flick " Anwar (2010) "was the unofficial adaptation of Hollywood film " Traitor (2008)".For your information : Kamal Hassan's Vishwaroopam also follows the similar kind of plot of terminating terrorists by joining as one of them.
  • Malayalam controversy movie 'Chaappa Kurishu (2011), was the uncredited adaptation of South Korean film ' Handphone (2009)'.


  • Do u remember this evergreen Malayalam film 'Kilukkam (1991)'?  .One of the all time best comedy film in the history of Malayalam Cinema. Unfortunately this film was the un credited adaptation of Hollywood film 'Roman Holidays(1953) ' starring Audrey Hepburn with Gregory Peck.It was noted that this film ' Roman Holidays' was also copied in Tamil version as ' May Madham (1994)' & in Bollywood as "Love You Hamesha"(2001).


   

  • Malayalam film "Natholi Oru Cheriya Meenalla (2013)" plot seemed inspired from Hollywood flick " Stranger than fiction (2006) " & its title logo inspired from Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) logo. Although the stories are different but the central theme are the same.

Another Hollywood movie "Ruby Spark(2012)" also deals with the similar plot of writing a novel about a girl of his dream & all of a sudden she really exists the next day & her daily activities depends on what he writes in his novel.So thus the Malayalam film drawn inspiration from these both films

Monday 8 July 2013

Tamil Movies Copied/Inspired

  • "Thuppakki (2012) dialogue inspiration from Taken (2008)"
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  •   K.V.Anand's Blockbuster Tamil movie " K0 (2011)" plot was adapted from Hollywood film " State of Play (2009)". Based on an online poll conducted by The Times of India, it won the Best Film Award for 2011.South Indian movies lift the plot from Hollywood movies and mold it to suit their audience.


  • National Award Winner Tamil film Mynaa (2010)' 's accident scene was copied from Steven Spielberg's 'The Lost World : Jurassic Park(1997)'


  • South India's one of the biggest blockbuster " Endhiran/Robo (2010)" plot inspired from Hollywood's John Malkovich starring " Making Mr. Right (1987)". Also it took inspiration from I Robot plot too . Endhiran poster looks similar to Terminator series posters & also its robotic design may get inspired from I Robot .

        It has also been noted that there is well praised scene in Endhiran where Chitti Robo finds the black   sleep.We can see the similar scene in I Robot as well where Will Smith finds the wrong one from a group of robots.May be its coincidental but just thought to mention those similarities too

  • Tamil Super Hit film " Deiva Thirumagal (2011)" was adapted from Sean Penn's Oscar nominated flick " I am Sam (2001)". It has been also noted that this film was already been unofficially remade in Bollywood as " Main Aisa Hi Hoon (2005)".Also in the tamil version famous song " Papa paapa " was shamefully copied by G.V.Prakash from a cartoon named "Robin Hood (1973)".



  • Tamil Cinema's all time Masterpieces ' Kamal Hassan's Nayakan (1987)' & Thevar Magan draws inspiration from the Hollywood's master piece ' The Godfather (1972)'.



Although it has already been stated that Kamal Hassan's Nayakan partially based real life story of Varadarajan Muniswami Mudaliar.But this film got heavily inspired from Godfather 1 & 2.

Nayakan Scenes Inspired from The Godfather :

  1. Both films narrates the scene where a guy seeks help regarding his daughter's murder.
  2. Both the films has a scene where gun shooting takes place at the residence of heroes where their families stays.
  3. Both the films have scenes where Godfather's son got shot on the road .In godfather , he got shot near vehicle checking & in Nayakan its in the petrol pump. 

Kamal Hassan's getup and gestures inspired from Marlon Brando (The Godfather).

  1. After the death of Marlon Brando ( Vito Corleone) ,and during the christening Connie's ( Marlon Brando's daughter) son ,AL Pacino orders to kill other dons. In Nayakan , after the death of Saranya ( His wife ), Kamal kills other dons in Mumbai during last rites (Pindam Karaithal ) and there are many scenes which proves that the film is the tamil adaptation of The Godfather.
  2. Thevar Magan scenes inspired from Godfather : In Godfather , Marlon Brando death scene while playing with his grand son and similarly Sivaji Ganasen's death scene in the movie Thevar Magan while playing with his grand daughters. Even though the essence of those scenes are similar , the style and construction are different.There are also another scene inspiration for Rajni Kanth's Annamalai , Rajni hits his sister's husband for torturing her . There is a similar scene in Godfather too where Al Pacino does it.

  • A.R.Murugadoss's Blockbuster" Ghajini ( Tamil/Hindi ) "were the uncredited adaptation of Chris Nolan's First kind of Master piece to get placed in IMdb Top 250 "Memento (2000)"


Just like Batman says " One man's tool is another man's weapon ",that's true in this case .The Tamil director made two films from a single Hollywood flick & earned a name for himself in Bollywood as well & this also gave decent platform for actress 'Asin' to enter Bollywood. 

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Tamil Movie Posters Copied/Inspired


  •  Kollywood Blockbuster "Thuppakki (2012)" poster & logo inspiration.


  • Tamil upcoming movie " Pizza 2 : Villa " font style is exactly similar to Billa (2007) font style 

  •  Suriya's Singham 2 Poster inspiration

  • Tamil flick Velayudham poster inspired from Assassin's Creed Game wallpaper .
  • Tamil upcoming film " Ya Ya (2013)" movie poster inspiration from Hollywood comedy flick " The Compaign (2012)".


  • Tamil Blockbuster movie 'Ayan (2009)' poster inspiration from Chris Nolan's 'Memento(2000)'

  • Tamil movie 'Pizza movie poster inspiration from Mexican film 'Amores perros (2000)'.


  • "Thalaiva" poster inspired from Telugu film " Leader ".Also the way Vijay holding hands together and the background are similar to the leader and theme of the both movies looks similar.Let's wait for the officia release .