{"id":1091,"date":"2005-02-21T16:46:32","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T21:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1091"},"modified":"2005-04-13T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:23:03","slug":"bollywood_copyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/21\/bollywood_copyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood copycats exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Watching Bollywood films can often strike you with a maddening case of deja\nvu. You think you’ve seen the movie before, but you just can’t identify\nthe what, when and where of your suspicion. Enter Bollycat<\/a> (via Nirali\nMagazine<\/a><\/em>),\na new web site started by a team of students at SUNY Rockland, which aims to\nlink Bollywood films to their Hollywood “inspirations.”\n<\/p>\n\n

“It’s wrong to even use the word inspiration here,” said\nweb site creator Haydur Agha in a press release. “It’s really stealing\nsomeone else’s creation and molding it to fit the Indian taste without\never officially mentioning or paying for the rights to the original content.\nAnd it’s not fair to the fans either.”<\/p>\n\n

The site invites visitors to submit their own listings, and currently cites\nmore than 100 such cases of plagarism: “Shree 420,” a story about\na young man’s self-destructive journey to the top, allegedly derives its\nsource from Orson Welle’s classic “Citizen Kane.” My personal\nfavorite, “Dil Chahta Hai,” might have taken its story of\npost-college estrangement and reunification from “St. Elmo’s Fire,” and “Reality\nBites.” I submitted my own Bollycat — last year’s “Kal\nHo Naa Ho,” a NRI-flavored tale about an ill-fated love triangle, clearly\ntook its cues from adult megahit “Three-Way Betty IV: Dildo’s Revenge.” Go\nahead, try to prove me wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watching Bollywood films can often strike you with a maddening case of deja vu. You think you’ve seen the movie before, but you just can’t identify the what, when and where of your suspicion. Enter Bollycat (via Nirali Magazine), a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}