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Originally posted by: RadhaHiBawari
When you think horror, you think ghosts. And either Salman or Isha could have taken that role. But Salman chose Isha because of her flexibility. He himself couldn't have been able to pull of what she did. So the fact that the female in both acts is playing the ghosts is copying?
The songs are quite different, actually. They might be from the same movie, but "Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya" was originally just a romantic number with Urmila Matondkar singing in a bathtub. Salman took it in a whole different direction. And as per the camera effects, then that's all up to the camera man. They might have the same guy from last season, who knows?
I have already answered your point in blue in my original post above, but I'll try to put across my point in another way again.
Granted that it was more convenient to make Isha the ghost cos of her flexibility. But then where does the novelty remain in the act if everyone starts applying the same idea cos of the 'convenience' inspite of knowing it has already been done before just a season back? What is new and praiseworthy in the concept then, which is actually the soul in such acts? Why is the act then worthy of so much applause if all the choreographer has done is to stick to the conventional route, despite knowing that an act of this sort has ALREADY been done on this stage?! Obviously some people will feel that the act is not worth of a 30!! If this was the first act of this sort (like Sushant Shampa's) then people would not point fingers, but when you know an act of this sort has already been done then why chose the same concept/storyline knowing there will be comparisons? You can't blame people for drawing comparisons/calling it plagiarism if you chose to do something so blatantly similar for whatever reasons! The onus to make the act look different in every whichever way falls on the choreographer, with or without the help of the cameraman, lightsman or whoever is involved, but certainly not the audience! They will obviously compare if similar concepts are chosen.
And it was not just about the female playing the ghost which is leading to people calling it copying of the concept. It was also about the female BEING KILLED BY THE ONE SHE LOVED and then taking revenge- a love-revenge-horror story that Sushant had written and made into a short film named Ignored Decibels. If Salman was so keen to show Isha as a ghost, there could have been so many ways he could ahve done it without making it seem similar to Sushant-Shampa's act of the love-revenge-horror story. Show the girl being killed by a cruel thakur, in a different setting, , a burnt house, a deserted villlage, show a spirit in a haunted house, heck there are a hundred ideas! Vampires are the latest trend, show vampires! Think out of the box, that shall always garner more praise!
