This is an old question, but it’s important. Why can’t India, which makes the most films in the world, make films with better scripts instead of copying ideas?
Plagiarism is nothing new in the Indian film industry. Bollywood has forever copied Hollywood movies, whether blatant copies or slight differences. “Bang Bang” is a copy of “Knight and Day”, “Pyaar Tou Hona Hi Tha” is an exact copy of the movie “French Kiss”, “Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi” is a copy of “The Parent Trap”, “U, Me Aur Hum’ was copied from ‘The Notebook’ and many more films are perfect examples of what plagiarism looks like.
The latest example of Bollywood plagiarism is Sherman Joshi’s upcoming film Congrats, in which Joshi plays a pregnant man. yes! We had total déjà vu while reading this. The concept was the original idea of Hollywood, who made a film titled “Junior” in 1994 featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Jr. follows an Austrian-American scientist named Alex Hesse. He agrees to have a male pregnancy from the newly developed drug Expectane. Joshi’s next movie will be released on February 3rd.
This copied-inspired remake (Bollywood cites How to do it) will remind you. Second, why does Bollywood want to show the impossible? Why does the Indian film industry not embrace mediocrity?
Bollywood didn’t know about its recent box office disaster. Shamsherah, Lal Singh Chadda, Dakad. Despite massive promotion, the big-budget film and stellar star cast failed miserably at the box office. Meanwhile, films like Kashmir Files and Drisham 2 dominated his 2022 box office, even with mediocre budgets.