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Remake of which English Movie?


Read somewhere but i can't quite recollect the name.

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Was it vaguely reminiscent of 'No entry' ?.

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You may wonder if this film's a ripoff of any particular Hollywood movie, but Sajid would probably say its his plagiarized version of Ben Stiller's films, picking plotpoints from Along Came Polly(leaving the guy on his honeymoon), The Heartbreak Kid(60% of the movie) and Meet The Parents(Arjun is almost Robert De Niro).

Indian cinema is a friggin' shame
Not one big budget original script.

Also I will not put spoiler tags just cause this movie is so crappy

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its one of the most irriating movie i eva saw . im realy ashamed of bollywood . REDICULOUS ..

They shud hv made a remake of nething . but cliping d scenes out of so many holly movies made d movie worst . like the scene akshay hiting d monkey , it ws thr in d scary movie 3 i bliv .. d actress hiting d cat .. scary movie series is spoof movie n stupid scene like tht suited it n it ws quite well executed

but fiting it into a movie like hOusfull made it more shi*full

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I dont think there will be anything preventing the desi's from making it a hit.

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actuly iv to see the movie very very carefuly to suck something orignal out of it

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in india directors make movie for money,and not for love of making movies ,almost 90 percent of them are inspired from hollywood or frame to frame copy of foreign movies .

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I bet 'do not disturb' was more funny than this. The movie watching audiance will have to take the blame if the movie becomes a hit. If movie like this continue to get huge attention, what will happen to other talented film makers ?.
There are directors and scriptwriters who make movies for entertaining audiances too. People complain that it is a s*** movie, but they also choose to watch the movie. In the past year all of Akshay's movies were flops, so why are people going in to watch his movies ?.

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lol last year only 2 flopped, rest were above average due to high cost. HOUSEFULL IS ON IT ITS WAY TO SUPERHIT.

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@ Chof031
May be akki's last few movies were not flop but average according to u.....but for me movie is not stated as hit or flop considering only its box office collection.....first thing for movie to be hit or flop is that the audience should like that movie and the most important thing is that movie should stand the test of time....and u will agree that akki's so called average movies remained in memories of people only for few days forget about years man.....the movies are earning only because akki has a huge fan following but it will surely decrease if he will do movies of these type....

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dude if wanna see akki in different film, then waith for his satire kaatha meetha, it will be different.

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Lol how is it a copy of meet the parents??? when does akki go to arjuns house???

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only difference was that in meet the parents ben stiller goes to de niro's house and in this movie arjun goes to akki's house....if this much difference is originality for u then good for u....and one more thing if u have seen meet the parents and must have seen mujse shadi karogi(as u look a big akki fan)there were many scenes of the meet the parents copied in mujse shadi karogi so he didn't copied that part this time and copied the remaining movie in housefull....

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ahahahaha this is one of the most hilarious things i heard, these sort of things been in numerous hindi films, where a brother or father looks out for their sister of or daughter, so does that make all of them rippoff, grow up man.

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u grow up man....first of all go and watch meet the parents..then come here....its not only brother or father thing,arjun rampal chracter was same as De Niro chracter....de niro was CIA agent and rampal was cbi agent .... both had lie detector machine and over that the sign which arjun makes to akshay with his two fingers pointing towards eyes was the same,exactly same as de niro did in meet the parents,de niro also did lie detector test on ben stiller to check his honesty and love for his daughter and arjun does the same so where is originality man....and i m not the only one saying this,please have a pain and read other posts in this same thread and u will come to know who needs to grow up.....

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thy might of been similar characters, that doesn't make it a ripoff, but just an inspiration.

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May be,may b not a copy of meet the parents....but how can one neglect d straight scene lift frm Ben Stillers night at the meuseum 2-the pathetic Monkey Slap scene which was neither funny in d original and forgettable in Housefull.

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ya ur right

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it was the copy of MEET THE PARENTS.......arjun rampal chracter was same as De Niro chracter....de niro was CIA agent and rampal was cbi agent .... both had lie detector machine and over that both the machines looked same...wow what a coincidence......Akshay chracter was somewhat like ben stiller chracter if not exactly same.....around 50% of movie was rip off of meet the parents and the remaining 50%,i can assure will not b original.....may be the only original scene in the movie was that of laughter gas because that was as stupid as Sajid khan....

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Somebody was comparing it to a kamal hassan and prabhu deva movie.

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Cooler- William H. Macy

''Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have''

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yaa u r right the casino portions are copied from cooler but here some stupid akshay fans are present who just don't want to agree on this fact that this movie is copied from many hollywood movies like meet the parents,cooler,heartbreak kid.......

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The climax is taken off from Lethal Weapon 4.

There's a scene were Riggs and Murtaugh along with Butters goes to a dental care clinic. All the characters in this scene are laughing like anything. Butters reveals that he is a son-in-law of Murtaugh. This info is supposed to be the worst of Murtaugh's life but he laughs like anything because of laughing gas.
Shame on bollywood...

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Rip off of You, me & dupree

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Along with meet the parents this movie has ripped off most of its parts from Kaathala Kaathala - A Kamal Haasan & Prabhu Deva Movie. The moment I laid eyes on the confusion gungho, It read KK all over.

The Wikipage of Housefull also states so
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Controversies

P L Thenappan — the producer of the 1998 Tamil film, Kaathala Kaathala starring Kamal Hassan, Prabhudeva, Rambha, and Soundarya — filed a complaint with the Tamil Film Producers Council alleging that producer Sajid Nadiadwala and director Sajid Khan had remade his film into Hindi without proper permission.[25]
In his complaint, Thenappan said, "I was shocked when I watched the Hindi film as nearly 60 per cent of the scenes from Kadhala Kadhala are there.” He also stated that he was in talks with Nadiadwala about selling the remake rights more than a year ago and the deal did not go through.[25]
The film also faced controversy due to the remixed version of the song "Apni Toh Jaise Taise," originally from the 1981 film Laawaris directed by Prakash Mehra. The Calcutta High Court restrained producer Sajid Nadiadwala from the cinematic use of the song.[26]

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Along with meet the parents this movie has ripped off most of its parts from Kaathala Kaathala - A Kamal Haasan & Prabhu Deva Movie. The moment I laid eyes on the confusion gungho, It read KK all over.

The Wikipage of Housefull also states so
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Controversies

P L Thenappan — the producer of the 1998 Tamil film, Kaathala Kaathala starring Kamal Hassan, Prabhudeva, Rambha, and Soundarya — filed a complaint with the Tamil Film Producers Council alleging that producer Sajid Nadiadwala and director Sajid Khan had remade his film into Hindi without proper permission.[25]
In his complaint, Thenappan said, "I was shocked when I watched the Hindi film as nearly 60 per cent of the scenes from Kadhala Kadhala are there.” He also stated that he was in talks with Nadiadwala about selling the remake rights more than a year ago and the deal did not go through.[25]
The film also faced controversy due to the remixed version of the song "Apni Toh Jaise Taise," originally from the 1981 film Laawaris directed by Prakash Mehra. The Calcutta High Court restrained producer Sajid Nadiadwala from the cinematic use of the song.[26]

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Along with meet the parents this movie has ripped off most of its parts from Kaathala Kaathala - A Kamal Haasan & Prabhu Deva Movie. The moment I laid eyes on the confusion gungho, It read KK all over.

The Wikipage of Housefull also states so
"
Controversies

P L Thenappan — the producer of the 1998 Tamil film, Kaathala Kaathala starring Kamal Hassan, Prabhudeva, Rambha, and Soundarya — filed a complaint with the Tamil Film Producers Council alleging that producer Sajid Nadiadwala and director Sajid Khan had remade his film into Hindi without proper permission.[25]
In his complaint, Thenappan said, "I was shocked when I watched the Hindi film as nearly 60 per cent of the scenes from Kadhala Kadhala are there.” He also stated that he was in talks with Nadiadwala about selling the remake rights more than a year ago and the deal did not go through.[25]
The film also faced controversy due to the remixed version of the song "Apni Toh Jaise Taise," originally from the 1981 film Laawaris directed by Prakash Mehra. The Calcutta High Court restrained producer Sajid Nadiadwala from the cinematic use of the song.[26]

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