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10 Jun, 2007

Bollywood and the forgotten feeling called shame!

Posted by: Karthik In: Piece of my mind!

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We Indians have got used to all plagiarism in Bollywood, but when you’re premiering your scene-to-scene copied film in England - while the original starred one of UK’s biggest stars, how can you not be worried? Varun Bajaj, producer of The Train, lifted off the Hollywood film, Derailed (starring Clive Owen) has this to say, when IndiaFM asked him, “What exactly does the premiere at IIFA mean for the film?” - “…with around 300 journalists watching, the film would get an extensive coverage“. Hello! Isn’t that something worth speaking to your legal adviser and covering your sorry face in humiliation?

Keywords: Emraan Hashmi, Sayali Bhagat, Geeta Basra, Mithoon

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2 Responses to "Bollywood and the forgotten feeling called shame!"

1 | chinky1234

June 10th, 2007 at 10:07 pm

One thing bothering me is how is a director or even a producer supposed to credit his source? I mean, if he adds a line during the opening credits such “Adapted from the film so-and-so”, is it then technically crediting his source? Or does the producer have to to purchase the rights of the film which he is adapting (ala KJo purchasing the rights of “Pretty Woman” for Kal Ho Naa Ho)

What do you think, Karthik?

2 | Karthik

June 11th, 2007 at 10:30 am

Good question. With rampant plagiarism I dont think anyone even thought of the modalities, but I guess, like in the west, the method is to seek the rights of film, from the original’s producer, pay the necessary royalty and credit the script writer in the appropriate place during the initial or end credits.

Usually, a copyright lasts about 50 to 70 (depending on the kind of work, I suppose) years after which it goes to the public domain and derivative works are legal with no royalty.

Karan Johar’s act of buying the rights of the song Pretty Woman (not the film!!) from the estate of Roy Orbison and crediting him appropriately is perhaps the ONLY instance of someone bothering to do things legally in the history of Indian cinema.

With such blatant lifting happening, I wonder how these guys can afford to show their face in places like UK for IIFA…to see Emraan, Sayali and Geeta dressed like Oscar nominees for the premiere of The Train, I can only laugh…don’t these people have any sense of shame? C’mon, if the premiere was in Mumbai, I can understand, we’re like this only! But, in UK…where, I’m sure many people would have seen Derailed thanks to Clive Owen’s star status there….its humiliating, to say the least.

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