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Stupid tagline...

posted 17 years ago by simian_ninja
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Has anybody seen the posters for this? It's available on the internet. The tagline's pretty damn stupid: "Based upon true rumors" or something idiotic like that. I dread to think what else they thought up.

"Based upon actual water cooler conversation".
"Based upon things people and their pets told me".

Anybody else want to come up with something? Could keep this going on for a while.

Other than that, looking forward to the movie. Not so much because of the director, his last film was crap but the cast should at least make something good happen.

[–] krishj17 17 years ago

theres actually a reason that the tagline says "based on true rumors"!!
its a true story, but some of the families and the people involved in the incident have not totally achknowledged the way the events unfolded and refuse to talk about it. thus, in order to prevent the production company (white feather) from getting sued by anyone by saying that it was based on a true story, they had to come up with something like that.
the incident had a great impact on the people in bombay, especially on those who were involved and their families. so the punchline has an unbiased and diplomatic function!!
so THATS why the punch line is what it is...!

the actual punchline though, if you look closely is "what everyone saw was real.. what no one saw was the truth". and once you watch the movie (hopefully), you will understand what that means!

[–] simian_ninja 17 years ago

"what everyone saw was real.. what no one saw was the truth"

that is an awesome tagline...still think based on true rumors sounds a bit silly though.

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[–] Cuj0 17 years ago

"Based on true rumors"...rofl

[–] krishj17 17 years ago

regarding "based on true rumors" knowing the indian legal system i'm sure it is there way of saying it is a disclaimer, especally after tanrannum sued them for using her name and her bar in the film!

[–] midnight_cobra 17 years ago

wtf?? rumors arnt true hahahahaha..gaiyy

[–] truly84 17 years ago

yeah i wish a better director was on this..