Actually, it's borrows from "A Kiss Before Dying" starring Robert Wagner from 1956. The version with Matt Dillon is a remake. Therefore, you can't critize Baazigar for "ripping off" a movie that Hollywood has already "ripped off."
I'm tired of the complaint that Hindi movies always rip off Hollywood ones. In my experience, while they may borrow a single plotline, 9 times out of 10, they completely change it around, making it a different film all together, and a better one even. Even this movie, while borrowing heavily from "A Kiss Before Dying" isn't the exact same film.
I was going to say it, but you said it for me
I love the book
A Kiss Before Dying and the original movie was by far the most faithful adaptation. The Sean Young/Matt Dillon movie just made me mad. At least Bollywood changes the names and several plot points around so that it's telling the same idea of a story, but doesn't feel as though it's ripping off of the book or movie's previous successes.
That said, I didn't really care for this movie. It seemed to me like SRK was playing two different people. The first half he's a cold-blooded killer, the second part he's an innocent victim of prior events. I'm sorry Kajol, but I don't care how cute he is, if I found out he pushed my sister off a building, I would shoot him myself.
I don't care about money. I just want to be wonderful. - Marilyn Monroe
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