Barely passable thriller which totally fails when it rips off Seven

Samay is absolutely a rip-off of Seven. The most remarkable part about Seven, the most memorable plot point, is the last scene between the cop and the killer. The killer's actions at the end created one of the most iconic endings in global cinema. Samay copied the essence of this ending completely.

In both films, the killer engineered an end where he kills someone close to the cop, therefore compelling the cop to shoot the killer dead on the spot. In this manner, the killer states that his aim is to achieve a kind of moralistic post-humous victory. Tell me, which other films have used this exact same plot device? It's a very uniquely framed ending to a serial killer movie and it's obvious that Samay has copied the framework entirely from Seven. Therefore, anyone who claims Samay is not copied from Seven is blatantly lying.

In order for a film to be considered unoriginal or a rip-off, it's not necessary that every plot element be the same. In that case, it would be called a scene-by-scene remake or a shot-for-shot remake. Instead, even if you copy the major aspect of the big reveal or climax of your film from another film, then your film is not original. Period. In fact, the immediate reaction after you finish watching Samay is, "Wow, that ending is exactly like Seven's." I mean, even on these IMDb boards, all we're doing is discussing the plagiarism that Samay did.

I thought Samay was quite weak even though it was not egregiously horrible as Bollywood films often are. Other Bollywood films, in recent times, have done murder-mystery films very well. For instance, Talvar was an excellent film - it worked as a murder-mystery procedural as well as highlighting the systemic and institutional frailties of the Indian justice system. Samay, on the other hand, was a superficial murder-mystery that randomly had an ending ripped off from Seven - it felt out of place and it was explicit plagiarism.