Copy of CAVITE

what a shame!! Watching the movie i was mesmerized at the originality of thought.

You are absolutely right. I just watched Aamir and quite liked it, but reading all these accusations of it being a rip-off of Cavite, I decided to read the plot synopsis for that life, and it's indeed almost exactly the same. Shame on Anurag Kashyap and UTV for supporting something like this. This film proves to be yet another embarrassment for Indian cinema unfortunately.

Yeah, who has ever heard of Indian films going to film festivals??? eg. films by Satyajit Ray, BR Chopra, Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihali, Anurag Kashyap, Sudhir Mishra.....oh wait....Aparna Sen, Mira Nair.....and many more!

Do a bit of research.
Read towards the end here: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/aamir-director-struggled-to-get-peggy-lee-song-for-movie_10060677.html

From the link:

The struggle to get Peggy Lee’s song wasn’t the only copyright crisis for “Aamir”.

“Halfway through the making, someone informed us that ‘Aamir’ looked suspiciously like Filipino director Neill dela Llana’s ‘Cavite’. I died. We didn’t want to take any chances.

“We immediately got in touch with the makers of ‘Cavite’ and told them what we were making and asked if we should proceed with our project or scrap it. They were gracious enough to give us an all-clear signal saying two works of art somewhere or the other are bound to resemble one another,” Gupta said.

“Imagine if a new director’s first film got scrapped! I was sure I’d be in the clear because my script was ready a good two years before ‘Cavite’ was released,” said the director.

Despite the quote given by one poster, this film is essentially a copy of Cavite. Although credit must be given to producer/directors that they have managed to preserve the spirit of the original and have come out with a tight and enjoyable film. The explanation given by the directors notwithstanding, the fact is that Cavite came out in 2005, about 3 years earlier than Aamir whose storyline and treatment is a virtual mirror of the original. Or if you are a fanboy of the Aamir makers, it could may be the most singular case of "con-incidence".

Damn.... I was on a roll - watched A Wednesday, Kahaani and Johnny Gaddar and was starting to feel - wow Bollywood has improved since I last saw a Bollywood movie ages ago.

Although I felt Kahaani was somewhat of a copy of Deception with Andie McDowell, Liam Neeson and Viggo Mortensen, it was still enough different to be a fun thriller. Certainly it has copied from various other mish-mash of movies as well but still everything woven together is fresh.

And then I watched Aamir and was taken aback by the ending and felt it was a good movie. Then I read here that is almost a frame by frame copy of Cavite.


Disappointed. Truly very disappointed. Back to reality in Bollywood.

"What is good is not original. What is original is not good"

let me say that it is very bad to copy a movie without having copyright. And bollywood has done that quite often over the years. But dont underestimate the fact that bollywood has it own identity there are movie which are not copy but brilliant there are movies which are brilliant but fail at boxoffice ,there are movies which are worst but hit at boxoffice, so this is basically masala industry content not matter as much as in hollywood .But last and most important thing is the fact the it is the second largest film industry in the world and if you add tamil telugu kannada malayalam bengali punjabi marathi gujrati and others small film industries then you will get more than thousand release a year if those thousand films 10 percent are copy then for those 10 percent you just cant blame whole industry but appreciate on those 90 percent movies of those some are of wednesday calibre..... But all in all if i would give ammir 9 marks out of 10 then now i would still give it 8 because direction acting cinematography other thing are very good .