This is Bollywood in 1997, copying a 1964 classic! 😀
Original (1964): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mh09VuGlKo
Copy (1997): https://youtu.be/Tto94nIUUHc / https://youtu.be/Tto94nIUUHc?t=62 / https://youtu.be/Tto94nIUUHc?t=139 / https://youtu.be/Tto94nIUUHc?t=238 etc.
Yep, happens only in Bollywood! 😀 Find more such Bollywood copies in our #Music posts! 😀
Hall of Shame!
Today's Bollywood "film", from 1948, is one of the first Bollywood productions to plagiarize a foreign movie - a 1947 American comedy! 😀 So here it is, folks - the Bollywood "trendsetter" that showed the "industry" how to generate its "films"! 😀
More Bollywood copies in our #HallOfShame! 😀
Here's Bollywood's 1986 copy of a 1983 hit! 😀
Original (1983): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw&t=44s
Copy (1986): https://youtu.be/ItF6nP09wXw?t=43 / https://youtu.be/ItF6nP09wXw?t=100 / https://youtu.be/ItF6nP09wXw?t=202 / https://youtu.be/ItF6nP09wXw?t=319
Bollywood copied the original again in the 1990s: https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/111160000859474700 😀
More tunes copied by Bollywood in our #Music posts! 😀
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Here's a 2011 Bollywood "film" that turned out to be a copy of an acclaimed 2005 Japanese movie! 😀
More such copied-by-Bollywood movies in our #HallOfShame! 😀
Copied Scenes!
Previously (in https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/113979837064766694, https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/114336561853853879 and https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/113945857427414340) we saw how a 2007 Bollywood "film" plagiarized a classic 1963 American comedy. 😀 Well, it wasn't the *only* Bollywood "film" plagiarize the original! Here's another Bollywood "film" that copied bits and pieces from the 1963 hit! 😀
See https://youtu.be/D0CjuKWnYiI?t=80
More scenes stolen by Bollywood in our #CopiedScene posts! 😀
Below: posters for a 2016 Thai romantic movie (left) and for a 2026 Bollywood "film" (right). Bollywood drew accusations of plagiarizing the Thai poster. 😀
More posters Bollywood has copied in our #Poster posts! 😀
This Bollywood copy from 1982 (the one listed first in https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/111066573072722747) is considered so "iconic" by fans that Bollywood went ahead and remixed the copy as a tribute! 😀
Original: https://youtu.be/2XVHXW2u_98
Remix of the 1982 copy (2023): https://youtu.be/wDNCFu3Y5BA?t=30 / https://youtu.be/wDNCFu3Y5BA?t=126 etc.
Like we used to say: you can't make this stuff up, folks! 😀
More music copied by Bollywood in our #Music posts! 😀
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...and here's Bollywood's first copy of a hit 1988 American action comedy: this copy is from 1998! 😀 The second copy? Here it is: https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/116482573039911571 😀
More Bollywood copies in our #HallOfShame! 😀
Back to Bollywood's (ahem!) "golden age", where we find this "pearl" of plagiarism! 😀
Original (1961): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDRxmwF_ElY
Copy (1965): https://youtu.be/lokpohoCyF8?t=23 / https://youtu.be/lokpohoCyF8?t=71 / https://youtu.be/lokpohoCyF8?t=145 etc.
Find more such copied tunes in our #Music posts! 😀
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A classic 1988 American action comedy copied! For the second time, too! 😀 That's right folks, here's the second copy, from 2015! We'll feature the first copy too, later this week! 😀
More copied-in-Bollywood "films" in our #HallOfShame! 😀
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