lol. there had to be a reason?!? anyway, yeah, from what I heard, only the trailers look related. other than that, the only links are passionate chefs

after reading Ali's negative review on Nishabd , turned me off i can't be bothered will give this a sure miss.

Mostly Martha was a German film I think. Dear God! I'm so disappointed that even Cheeni Kum had to lift (copy/steal) from a European film. Bollywood films don't just rip-off US films they seem to be ripping-off world cinema. Is it lack of talent or lack of originality that "Bollywood" keeps on doing this?

yup, cheapo china/homg kong too

I literated sat with my whole heart to watch it! as Tabu is my fav actress and I loved the music, i.e imho, the best soundtrack of the year!AB ! I was possibly ready to be not disappointed,Zohra Sehgal..always pleasure to watch!

but literally it was cheeni kum in this film, where it did need enough cheeni to work, and Paresh Rawal..was a waste too imho

Khiladi, you are right, Mostly Martha is a German film.

Jadoo, if you wish to watch the film, watch it. Don't let a negative review keep you from doing so, and, I suppose, don't let a postive one force you to the screen.

As for "lifting," I'm getting a unbearably sick of reading everyone bash Indian filmmakers as "plagiarists." Sure, there's some disturbingly ripped-off tripe out there (Kaante, Ek Ajnabee, Zinda, etc.), but the entire institution is far from bent on theft. I hate to beat a dead horse, but, indeed, everything does come from somewhere. Hell: Scarface is a re-make of the Paul Muni films of the 1930s. Just hearing, "this film was inspired by this work" shouldn't be a red light to Indians: "Oh, shit: another rip-off!" Look at Apne: Of course, it wouldn't exist if Rocky had never been made, but neither would countless other movies (across the globe); the Indian effort is hardly to be taken as a "rip-off." Sarkar — which I only "like" — was supposedly inspired by The Godfather, but, really, which "mob movie" since Coppola's hasn't taken some direction from the source? Varma just happened to mention where he got his idea from, unlike many, many others, who just keep their mouths shut and make their films.

As moviegoers, I think we can tell when we're watching the product of a lazy, head-stuffed-with-shit sort of filmmaker whose hope is to translate a script into Hindi and throw in a few half-baked songs, and lure an audience he knows will watch the raging beast of laziness and shittiness to a degree great enough to "earn" him a profit. We also recognize the result of a person who saw a picture and really, really liked it, and decided to incorporate its idea into his or her own effort. I'm just so ill from enduring all the posts (not just here) lambasting a person as soon as someone "figures out," "I've heard that before... Oh, my god: it's a rip-off from Hollywood! Not again!"

Let's be aware, but let's not grab our pitchforks and light our torches and set out fuming-mad on a witch-hunt. As well, if we're not too tired from hold ourselves back from this sort of assault, let's try bravely to actually wait to watch a film before forming an opinion on it, and then allowing that opinion not to be biased by a layer of pre-determined antipathy and resentment.

I would take Commando303 bhai's advice and judge it for yourself, might be just one those movies that has a love or hate affect. I just found the promos boring and the movie even more so.

Ali