It may sound awfully inauspicious this Season, but somebody has to say it. It is one thing to have 'inspiration' from a creative product but it is doubly painful to watch the line getting longer by the day.When Dil Bole hadippa came around, and the biggest love factory in Asia went about promoting that spunky Kaur moon - lighting as a spunkier cricket - crazy Sardar, and reams of interviews about the uniqueness of the plot, you forgave them.
I mean, how can you be so naive about all this in this age of information, where evrything you need to search and be informed is at the ease of pressing a key.
Did Aditya Cjopra really think that no one would find the startling similarities been Dil Bole Hadippa and She's the Man directed by Andy Fickman, released in 2006 which is the story of this girl who takes the place of her identical twin - brother, stars in football and falls for his buddy. Yeah, I know, where you are heading with the counter - argument for this one. Change football to cricket, add punjab and patriotism (the usual Yashraj ingredients) and voila, your dish is complete.
What is even more hilarious was She's the Man itself was a reworking of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
And then came Acid Factory. Coming from Sanjay Gupta, it was no surprise about the originality of the film, but this took the cake amongst all his inspirations.The Columbian film - maker Simon Brand's Unknown released in 2006 in English worldwide and as Mentes en Blanco in Columbia tells you exactly the same story. But, even the original loses steam after the first 20 minutes as the director loses all semblence of ideas and the plot goes into hamming over - drive. It was more of taking Christopher Nolan's Memento (our own Ghajini) and extending it to the entire movie's set of characters. But, it was an acid bath, literally for the movie fans as they watched this garbage in Hindi.
It just didn't stop there.
Blue, the biggest and the costliest Bollywood production is a a mix of two movies , main parts copied from Into the Blue and land action from Torque. Even the story line seems uncannily similar to Into the Blue, starring Jessica Alba and Paul Walker was about a under water treasure hunt by a deep sea diver dreaming of discovering a Spanish galleon, loaded with gold and becoming rich.

And to top it off, Into the Blue was inspired from Peter Benchley's The Deep which was made into a movie in 1977.

Or, for that matter,Sallubhai's Main aurr Mrs.Khanna.

Take the song Tumne Sochcha from Mein aurr Mrs.Khanna.
The song is an unprecedented feat of musical mastery by Sajid - Wajid who seemed to have taken the rhythm of Every breath you take and the song structure of Blackhole Sun by Soundgarden. Amazing!!
The much awaited Teen Patti is another inspired thriller from 21 starring Kevin Spacey.
More on it later.
Warm Diwali wishes to everyone.