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Some call it 'shamelessly copied', some 'inspired', but Bollywood imitations thrive thanks to the endless supply of DVDs of strange movies from the oddest corners of the planet.Adapting a book into a screenplay and then a movie is well known, and even considered rather kosher, but most movie plotsare simply lifted and placed in an Indian setting. Sometimes even scenes are lifted and added to movies hoping no oneelse will notice them. The most recent and pointless scene stealing was in Aisha,the remake that acknowledges its inspiration from Jane Austen's Emma, where theysteal the 'I love you speech at another's wedding' scene from 27 Dresses.Poster art inspiration for the latest movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara from Lords of Dogtown is so blatent, it puts your teeth on edge. But that it is awatered down copy of Dil Chahta Hai is a point of debate.
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Whether it is Korean Old Boy being made into Zinda (and it is a very well made inspired movie), or The Burning Train made from Shinkansen Daibakuha (1975) or even the hugely successful Partner (inspired by the equally successful Hitch) good copies are welcome simply because the 'masses' may or may not get a chance to see the original. That they ought to acknowledge source of inspiration is given. But the international laws are rather uneven and the fines exorbitant, the simplest way out is to say that they had been working on the idea for many years, and that the similarity is but a coincidence.
The scene is slowly changing, though. Filmmakers like Karan Johar have paid fees to buy the rights for a remake (We Are Family) and Hollywood has simply started releasing English movies dubbed in local Indian languages (making 2012 one of the highest grossing films last year), there will always be Ghajini (happily made inTamil and Hindi) that does not acknowledge its source of inspiration from Memento or 
those many blockbuster multistarrer hit comedies like Heyy Babyy and Welcome who refuse to even consider that they lifted their material from Hollywood. From an audience point of view, as long as the cinema transports me into a world of delight, it does not matter.
So the next time you have a sense of Deja Vu, you know the movie has been inspired by something someone else has made.
Here is our list of the originals and inspired movies. Do add!
FilmOrbit's Ten Favourite Inspired Movies:
Maqbool from Macbeth
Omkara from Othello
Chachi 420 and Avvai Shanmugi from MrsDoubtfire
Sarkar from The Godfather
May Maadham from Roman Holiday
Karz and Ennakul Oruva from TheReincarnation of Peter Proud
Bheja Fry from Dinner de Cons
Hum Tum from When Harry Met Sally
Rang De Basanti from All My Sons and Jesus of Montreal
Koi Mil Gaya from ET The Extra Terrestrial and Forrest Gump
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