Top 10 Times Bollywood Was Caught Copying Hollywood

Bollywood is indeed a great industry but it has also its share of copying the Hollywood films. Now let us look at some instances where Bollywood has been called out for copying its scenes or content from other movies.

1. Keanu Reeves A very skilled actor, having a career spanning mor >> Read More... In Matrix Vs Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar was born on 9th September 1967 and hi >> Read More... In Awara Pagal Deewana

The fight scene in Awaara Pagal Deewana where Akshay Kumar fights goons in a sort of warehouse setup, has been copied frame by frame from Matrix where Keanu Reeves is seen performing the exact stunts and fighting moves that Akshay Kumar does in the movie.

2. Barfi! Vs Charlie Chaplin Charles Chaplin popularly known as Charlie Chaplin >> Read More...

Scenes where Murphy or Ranbir Kapoor Ranbir Kapoor is a noted Indian film actor. He was >> Read More... or Barfi, whichever name we choose to call him, runs from the police inspector has been copied from Charlie Chaplin’s movie The Adventurer. Of course, director Anurag basu later slammed all these reports by saying that those scenes were added as a token of homage to Charlie Chaplin, creatively saving himself.

3. Partner Vs Hitch

The concept of the movie Partner where a love guru helps an ordinary man get a girl who is way out of his league is copied from the movie Hitch starring Will Smith “Getting’ Jiggy With It!” This his own song releas >> Read More... , who is played by Salman khan in the Indian version and Kevin James Kevin James (also known as Kevin George Knipfing) >> Read More... who is played by Govinda Govinda is a popular Bollywood star who is known f >> Read More... in the same.

4. There IsSomething About Mary Vs Deewane Hue Pagal

The Indian version is yet another rip-off of the Hollywood version starring Cameron Diaz She’s one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywo >> Read More... as Mary, the girl whom every guy wants to impress and ends up getting conned in the process.

5. Main Aisa Hi Hoon Vs I Am Sam

A movie about an autistic father with a normal daughter who loves her father and does not want to be smarter than him, leading into a legal battle with a single mom as his lawyer, is a touching story even in the Bollywood version played by Ajay Devgn with Sushmita Sen What is the essence of being a woman? her winning >> Read More... as his lawyer.

6. Murder Vs Unfaithful

An unfaithful wife, her lover and a cuckolded husband later turning into a murder mystery where the lover is murdered by the husband. The only difference in the storyline is the ending in the Indian version, which focuses a lot on the investigation rather than the actual unfaithfulness of the wife. The wife is played by Mallika Sherawat Mallika Sherawat is a glamorous Model turned bold >> Read More... , the lover by Emraan Hashmi Emraan Hashmi is one of the most successful & cont >> Read More... , and the Husband by Ashmit Patel Ashmit Patel is an Indian film actor and director >> Read More... .

7. I Know What You Did Last Summer Vs Kuch Toh Hai

An accident and then a psycho murder spree is what defines both the movies where a group of friends are brutally killed one by one by the one they thought, was dead.

8. Liar Liar Vs Kyo Kii…Main Jhuth Nahi Bolta

Both movies center around a lawyer played by Jim Carrey He is undeniably one of the greatest and magnifice >> Read More... in Liar Liar and Govinda in the latter, whose winning streak is fuelled by lies and one day when his son wishes that he cannot lie for 24 hours, all hells break loose! Both the movies are made into comedy with minor changes in the storyline, basic plot being the same.

9. God Tussi Great Ho Vs Bruce Almighty

The iconic Jim Carrey’s movie was copied from its very essence into the disastrous God Tussi Great Ho, the main protagonist played by none other than Salman khan and Morgan Freeman’s role as God played by Amitabh Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in A >> Read More... . The protagonist is always at an all-out war with God because he believes God never gives him an opportunity to accomplish better things in life until one day, God is tired of his complaining and decides to give him his powers to see how well can he do his job!

10. Chachi 420 Vs Mrs Doubtfire

The “ex-husband turning into a nanny to spend more time with his children” concept is copied in Chachi 420 where Kamal Hassan is the said husband in the Bollywood copy and Robin Williams Robin Williams is a legendary actor and comedian. >> Read More... is the one playing the original role in the Hollywood flick. Both the films are comic reliefs and win the hearts of the audience. Well, coming up with original content is not easy and that applies to movie scripts too! Maybe next time we will take a jibe at Hollywood for copying from our movies!