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Unoriginal???? Storyline taken from a bolly wood movie


It seems that this movie's storyline is an exact copy of a bollywood movie that was quite popular a few years ago. It is called Gadar. It also follows a Muslim girl, left behind in India and taken in by a Sikh man. She thinks her famly is dead, but she finds them. She goes to visit them, and is "imprisoned" by her own family. Then, the Sikh travels through Pakistan to bring her back.
The niceties of the movies are probably different, but in essence aren't they the same?
Sunny Deol played the role of the Sikh man, and Amisha Patel played the Muslim woman. This movie was accompanied by an absolutely mesmerizing soundtrack, and some decent performances.

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I knew all this, I just used Gadar as an example. Either way the movie to me seems unoriginal. This is not to say it is bad. Every story has been told more that once, and some re-tellings are better than others. The family friends that Vic Sarin talks about were a Sikh and Muslim who were in love (not yet married). But because it was around Partition time, they chose to commit suicide, by jumping off a dam. The Sikh man did not die the first jump, so he went up and jumped again. That was Sarin's inspiration, but little of the plot is seen in Partition.

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I used that as an example, i'm not trying to change anything. i used gadar as an example because it was a popular movie.

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I find the storyline of this movie unoriginal mostly because it stole the relevant parts from actual events. Take a step back and remember that this was real. Whatever crappy movies show you, remember that they are sensationalizing serious events that shaped two countries. At best, we have one-sided accounts of what happened and at worst a third party stepping in to judge our history for us. Either way all I have to say to this is get bent.

I’m sick and tired of these films that exploit historical events just to push out some craptastic love story that wouldn’t hold up by itself. So if we can’t get this storyline to hold up itself, lets graft it onto a historical event, ignore the politics and history of the time but morons will watch it. Bet yet, morons will argue of the stupid piece of crap movie and get us free publicity.

If you don’t agree think about it for awhile, how many substandard movies have you watched where the main storyline isn’t worth a damn, but the historical connection is what got it attention. I’ll start the list:
- Mannat
- The English Patient
- Gadar
- Titanic
- Pearl Harbor (in anyone of its silly incarnations starting the line
with Ben Affleck)
- Udham Singh (random and sundry collection of movies that didn’t
bother at all with historical accuracy, too many to
start listing titles individually).
- The Patriot
- The Last Samurai

Bored now . . .

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There are very few truly original movies these days. I believe that now they are merely trying to out-do one another in the making and acting of them.

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interesting that no one has mentioned ROMEO & JULIET...

even that wasn't original when shakespeare penned it, so let's please not pretend there was anything original in GADAR, no matter how much PARTITION might appear to be a direct copy of it...

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Bollywood is inspired by Shakespeare ;)

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umm how do people know that he went back up and jumped again? cos this means someone must have been watching as they both died.

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so what its reality for these cultures. its not a story. both movies are taken from what REALLY happens. its bascially like a romeo & juliet kinda thing so w/e
did the bollywood movie have the story line like neve campbells too?

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GHADAR was a copy of the Punjabi movie Shaheed-e-Muhabbat. The Punjabi film was done much better, especially because it was done by Punjabis portraying Punjabis. When they did GHADAR, it was a “Bollywood” adaptation that is essentially like making a mainstream “Hollywood” version of something - it became one-dimensional. The lead, Sunny Deol, was just this macho screaming “Jatt” character…it made the Hindu and Sikh men cheer for the attack on Muslims and what seemed like a patriotic victory for India. In short, it was stupid.

I wonder if the makers of “Partition” saw “Shaheed-e-Muhabbat”.

Chili-P (It's my signature, yo.)

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