Remakes! Inspirations! Or, sheer coincidence!

by kavita | May 6, 2008 at 09:09 am | 215 views | 2 comments

Remaking of successful Hollywood films in India has been going on for ages. Indian producers hate the term 'plagiarism'.

Instead, they prefer to call their unofficial remakes 'inspirations'. In this report we list hundreds of Indian remakes/inspired films as the Hollywood studios try to restrain this business of inspiration by allowing "The Wedding Crashers" to become the first authorised remake of a Hollywood film in India, writes Kathy Robinson in this exclusive report for iefilmi.com.

Yes, a Bollywood version of "The Wedding Crashers" could be the first official remake of a Hollywood film in India, according to reports, meaning giving due acknowledgemt to the original. Plagiarism stopped!

Warner Bros. Pictures India is in discussions with Bollywood banner Orion Pictures for an official remake of the 2005 comedy. Read the list of Indian remakes from Hollywood in this iefilmi.com report.

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Richard Drewmore

at 10:29 on May 6th, 2008

good stuff:

kavita, I like this story. It's good stuff. The list makes fascinating reading!

Jarrett Martineau

at 10:47 on May 6th, 2008

Thanks for this post, Kavita - it would be great if you could add your own perspective and thoughts to this story, rather than simply highlighting text from elsewhere. Thanks.