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Ripp-off of 'There is something about Mary'


If you watch carefully you'll see this movie is a rip-off of 'There is something about Mary' with Benn stiller. I watched this movie half, but then I stopped it. Its looks too much like 'There is something about Mary' and I hate that movie.

Oh yeah, some fightings scenes in the beginning of the movie where Akshay fights a black man in a ring are from the THAI movie Ong-bak-Muay Thai warrior.

OMG, TOO MUCH RIP-OFF, MY EYES!!!

stupid bollywood movie-makers

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i haven't seen all of There's Something About Mary, just the end.
So I clearly remember the dog out the window scene, which, when I saw in DHP, my mind went straight to There's Something About Mary.
The ending, after the pathetic fight scene, also a big rip-off.

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your exactly right!! thats exactly what I was thinking when I saw this movie for the first time. It really pissed me off at how much these indian directors/filmmakers are willing to copy american movies scene to scene. Can indian movies every have an original idea??

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as soon as karan sends rocky 2 track down the girl he was in love with....i realised it was "something about mary".

indian filmakers always copy movies scene for scene. i mean, for god's sake.... just get the general story....and maybe remake it...but copying every scene is SOOO NOTTT necessary.

eg. the dog scene
sunil shetty on crutches
the ex-boyfriend who's been broken up by sunil shetty
the final "keys" scene

it's damn pathetic to be honest. the only thing that makes this movie worth watching is the 'hera peri' combination of akshay, shetty, and paresh rawal. akshay is funny is hell. now if they had all these comedy sequences in an original story...THAT would have been something.

speaking of the ong-bak fight scene....god!!! did they have to copy Tony Jaa's muay thai stances too!??!!! grrrrr

the last showdown with the bad guys (although some of the motorbike stunts were good) was so silly. why the hell did the bad guys have all these men ready with those dune-buggies? they were recent arrivals in dubai anyway... where did those extra men come from. the location or way the final fight unfolded made no sense at all. i just sat there thinking "why are all the motorbikes/buggies just running around randomly?"

PS: if a girl is on the run from villains ...and is in hiding 4 fear of losing her life...she doesn't try to become a famous singer/model who's posters will be displayed everywhere.

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It is a total rip-off . Wikipedia clearly states " Its plot was lifted from the 1998 American comedy film There's Something About Mary." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deewane_Huye_Paagal#cite_note-1 .



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Total rip off but the humour was very Indian !!

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