On the IMDB Title menu for this movie, it says William Shakespeare wrote the play to this movie??? What does that mean??
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It was called Romeo and Juliet.
"I am a wizard, not a baboon with a stick."
That still doesn't explain things. Why is it listed as "Bollywood Queen" as a Shakespeare credit then? they could have specified that this movie was based on Romeo and Juliet which was written by William Shakespeare. Oh well.
Thank you though.
"I want ten chocolate chip cookies. Medium chips. None too close to the outside." -Howard Hughes
I think it's loosely based on Romeo and Juliet. Not sure why Shakespeare is credited, though.
shareI guess its because Romeo and Juliet is the first or at least the first one any one remembers that really set out that whole love across boundaries (although nor racial in the play)plot line so although the film is not inspired by the play. It follows a story line that springs from the ideas and themes that we associate with the play. I still think its a pretty tenuous link to make how many films about people committing murder do we say are based on Macbeth- not that many unless they are specially based on Macbeth.
shareIn my opinion the movie is clearly inspired by "Romeo & Juliet".
Not only is the plot about two "strar-crossed lovers", there are also clear references to scenes in the play.
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As Romeo Jay is more drawn into the feud than being an agressor. The scene in which Jay is more or less made to take part in a break-in in the factory of Geena's family mirrows the duel between Mercutio and Tybalt. Unlike in Shakespeare's drama the consequneces for the characters of the movie are les drastic. Jay's brother doesn't die, he only gets injured.
The balcony scene can be found in the scene in the university. As Romeo Jay climbs over the wall Jay uses a ladder to meet Geena and to arrange another secret meeting. Here, too, the scene is less threatening.
In the end Jay is not "Fortune's Fool" nor is Geena fate to join his "timeless end". The film makers obviously like Shakespeare. When Geena's father laments that his daughter has run off, the father uses the wel-known line from Macbeth "What's done is done."
Your troubles will cease and fortune will smile upon you.