I really liked 3 Deewaarein and I love The Shawshank Redemption, but I don't see any point in talking about the two films in the same sentence — they're both about prison... so what?

Main Azaad Hoon was based on Frank Capra's, Meet John Doe. Both movies are great, the former being one of my favorite Bachchan films.

One Hindi re-make I greatly prefer to the original is Satte Pe Satta (inspired by, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers). Also, I love Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, but I like Ramesh Sippy's Sholay much more than America's, The Magnificent Seven.

Teen Deewarein is not a remake of Shawshank Redemption, but it does have the twist ending of one of the inmate's crimes actually having been committed by another inmate, which is very similar to Shawshank and Green Mile.

Sholay is not exactly a copy of Seven Samurai or Magnificent Seven, it was just inspired by the idea of men protecting a village from Bandits. Sholay was an original work but was inspired by and copied scenes from The Magnificent Seven, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Once Upon a time in the west.



Hey Michael Douglas was great in Wall Street and Falling down.

Thought, this thread suits this post:

The other day I was watching a Hollywood film "Move Over Darling" on TV. I found it interesting and thought that this type of plot and presentation should work fine for a Bollywoodish film. Plus, add a few songs and romance and it could be a nice romance/ comedy film.

The plot is where a man marries a 2nd girl after his first wife was gone missing, in a sea disaster, for five yrs. On the wedding day his first wife comes back after a miraculous rescue from a deserted island where she was marooned with another man. There are comic situations at the start of the film where the judge is acting like a comic and later again declaring the lost woman dead and alive a number of times and declaring the husband guilty of polygamy, legally married to --, flip flopping a number of times, depending whether the first wife is declared legally dead or alive, which wife declared legally married or not. There also are comic situations/ complications when the other man from the marooned island interferes.

There was a comedy film with Salman or Govinda or Akshay where hero is constantly juggling with two wives (anyone recall name of this film ??) but don’t think rest of the plot had any similarity.

Any idea if Move Over Darling was copied in Bollywood ??

No idea if it was copied but I wouldn't be surprised. It sounds like the perfect film for bollywood to copy. A film I recall where the hero is constantly juggling with two wives is Gharwali Baharwali with Anil Kapoor.
From what you said, I think I might have seen move over darling. Is it an old film?

Its a copy of an old hollywood feature starring either Glen Ford or Cary Grant. Can't remember the name...

Found out, which Bollywood film I was thinking of. It's
Saajan Chale Sasural (1996)

Khamoshi appears to be a remake of "Jenseits der Stille" a.k.a. "Beyond Silence" released in the same year as Khamoshi.

Oh my God! I think SLB must've seen this film at an international film festival the previous year and thought he would be quick in ripping it off. It was to his advantage that this film would never be released in India, so the people wouldn't know and think it to be an original work.

So every single film Bhansali has done has been a remake! India should be careful of calling him one of their greatest directors.

His HDDCS was brilliant though, and hopefully was original

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Bambai Ka Maharaja (1980), Amjad Khan, seems based on Godfather too.

Except for the music from "Portrait of a Lady".

Ok, HDDCS borrowed music from Portrait Of A Lady...!

Brilliant? The very basic concept of the film was crap. While Salman passed gas and talked to the skies every two minutes in the name of acting, we are led to believe that this guy goes all over Europe to help his wife find her lover. The best part is that throughout the whole farce, the wife keeps her Manglasutra and Sindoor on. Give me a break. The movie was at best 'time pass' and was a a typicaly loud and melodramatic Bhansali film with some nice music. Sanjay Leela Bhansali films also end up playing like a 'Chitrahaar', if you know what I mean.

What is your opininon of Devgan's performance in HDDCS?
This was the turning point of his career -- ladies simply swooned and Devgan transformed into a ladies' man.

I found the overall treatment of HDDCS brilliant, concept flaws notwithstanding.