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PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2005 12:48 am 
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When will Bollywood ever learn! It's now ridiculous that the Indian film Industry having had enought of copying Hollywood are now copying other Asian cinema. Urmila's new film Naina is a copy of the Thai horror film 'The Eye' by the Pang brothers. I'm not sure if India gets the rights to remake these films or if they just remake anyway, but I think they'll be taken to court for that. Hollywood is also making a remake of the Eye.

Altough the clips of Naina look good I'm sure it's incomparable when compared to The Eye.


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PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2005 4:04 pm 
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I think this has been discuseed before - http://zulm.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6767

But it appears the director thinks otherwise ( http://nowrunning.com/news/news.asp?id=3403 )

Naina isn't a copy: Shripal Morakhia

Mumbai, May 22 (IANS): Shripal Morakhia, the director of "Naina" which has been accused of being a remake, says it is very much his own brainchild though he may have used other films as reference points.

"I've been so tense, I haven't been able to get more than three to four hours of sleep every night," Morakhia told IANS. "It has been stress-filled last lap for the film, especially when unnecessary controversies are happening."

The film that released Friday shows a blind woman having supernatural experiences following a cornea transplant, but it has invited protests from doctors who are calling the story medically wrong and misleading.

He's even more stupefied by the premature assessments that his film is a "scene by scene" remake of the Chinese film "The Eye".

"A cornea transplant isn't a common subject in cinema. There have been approximately a dozen films, major and minor, on the subject in various countries.

"I haven't really gone back to any of these films specifically, though as reference points they were bound to swim to the surface when I wrote my script. But to say that 'Naina' is a remake of any one particular film is completely wrong. This is my own film, and that's the way I want to see it.

"Why are we so keen to run down our films by proving them copycats? The fact is many of the films being made abroad have begun to resemble our films."


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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 6:42 pm 
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dvdisoil wrote:
This is my own film, and that's the way I want to see it.

"Why are we so keen to run down our films by proving them copycats? The fact is many of the films being made abroad have begun to resemble our films."


Because your films are copies and you have no originality!
What films is he talking about that resemble 'our' films? Is it crap like Bride and Prejudice, The Guru, etc?


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