Another straight copy by Bollywood, this time of Powder...

This is another straight copy, frame by frame even, of the so-so film "Powder" from 1995. Just goes to show yet again how creatively bankrupt "bollywood" is. The so-called indian filmmakers have proven yet again they have not an iota of original thought amongst them, and are just a bunch of petty thieves. I am surprised that in a country of more than a billion people, they can't come up with one coherent original thought for their stories. Why do they so easily resort to aping hollywood, which by no means is all milk and honey either? Baffling. To makes things worse, the incredibly cheesy and trashy "re-makes" (yeah! sure! try xeroxes) are lapped up by the increasingly immature and zombified indian audiences. So I can't put all the blame on the opportunistic, shameless and greedy indian bollywood community entirely. If their target audiences start demanding true original stories from these hacks, maybe they'll come to their senses and actually kick-start that rusted and long-dead process creative thinking. And feigning ignorance in a globally connected world, where information is literally at your fingertips, is no excuse. Perhaps that is too much to ask of an entire nation of apologists, who actually celebrate mediocrity and love to make excuses at the drop of the hat!

Some may ask and wonder, why don't hollywood studios, with their big bucks. go after and crucify these bollywood copycats? Well, anyone who knows anything about India, will tell you that the Indian legal system is so incredibly convoluted and slow, its laughable. That is why these beggers and thieves get away with their despicable larceny. Some have tried in the past, like novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford did in 2003.

I read this in a CBS news article from 2003:
"Take a Hollywood plot, sprinkle in cheesy song-and-dance numbers and pour in a gallon of melodrama. Shake well, and you've got a Bollywood movie."

...oh and don't forget to pack the theaters with drooling brain-dead idiots. A mediocre nation of a billion plus is bound to be overflowing with them.

One excuse that I recently heard, about why bollywood copies hollywood, is that movies and stories have to be "indianized." Well, if indianizing mean robbing the original artist/author of their work, effort and creativity by blindly copying from hollywood with impunity, then I feel nothing but pity for indians.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.