Take that, copycat!-Saawariya

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Shruti

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Posted: 18 years ago

Take that, copycat!
By: Amul Sharma
October 23, 2007

Unlike director Bhansali, Sony Pictures wants it known that Saawariya is inspired by White Nights

Inspiration: A still from Le Notti Bianche

It's no secret that David Dhawan's Partner which released in July was the copy of the English film Hitch. At the time, the producers — Sony Pictures — contemplated action against the makers of Partner for making a blatant copy of their film without giving due credit.

But the controversy soon died out in a few days. For reasons best known to the officials at Sony Pictures, they did not initiate any action against the copy cats.

In a fix

But now Sony Pictures is in a fix. It's got something to do with their first Hindi production Saawariya! The film, based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short story White Nights published in 1948.

The same story was later adapted into a famous Italian film Le Notti Bianche, by acclaimed director Luchino Visconti in 1957, and remade again into a French film Four Nights of a Dreamer. Sony Pictures wanted to put a line on the posters saying that it is inspired by the original.

The production house didn't want to come across as a hypocrite, considering the noise they'd made over Partner. But their suggestion didn't go down very well with the director.

Inspired: A still from Saawariya

'I'm not liable!'

Says an insider, "Sanjay was not very keen on putting the tag on the posters, he feels it's his baby and didn't want to share his creative credit with anyone." The other reason for Sanjay's hesitation could be as he feels the short story came out well over 50 years and he is not liable to put that tag.

After a lot of deliberation on the part of Sony Pictures, Sanjay has finally agreed to put the line in the starting credit of the film. He refused to let them say anything on the posters.

An source from Sony Pictures confirms, "Yes, the film Saawariya is based on the short story White Nights and although the posters of the film don't say it, I think we've mentioned that it's inspired by White Nights in the credits of the film. Meanwhile, they thought he could place the tag on the posters of the film saying 'based on a short story White Nights.'

https://www.mid-day.com/hitlist/2007/october/165952.htm

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Aphrodite

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Posted: 18 years ago

Copy and argue ! Wah SLB , why dont you create your own stories instead !

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rumu

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Posted: 18 years ago

We know it already...may be the writer is paid by farah😡
...here is one of the related link:
http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=756219

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rumu

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Posted: 18 years ago

Farah is the greatest copycat...OSO is a remake of Rishiji's Karz...and mixtured with two other film. 😆 😆 😆

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Posted: 18 years ago

yeh i no😛😛😛....evry 1 copies from evry 1😆

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Sharma

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Posted: 18 years ago

Talk about copy cat....What is Farah then...she is busy announcing that for the first time 31 stars come togather....Did she forget about NASEEB...where Amitabh sang a song where all the big bollywood actors made speciual appearance.....and yet again SRK copies Amitabh. 😉 ..when will he stop that. 😃

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Unique

@Terenaina

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Posted: 18 years ago

SLB never stops copying other stories. 😆 He acts like he came up with the whole story.

When I watched the old american movie that was later copied into Black, I was shocked because the two movie are exactly alike.

Anyways, there are a lot of copy caters

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kiran

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Posted: 18 years ago

this has nothing toi do with srk or farah...stick to the topic .....wese to saawariya ki bhut baatain hoti hain yahan.....u cant idolise one person to be perfect and degrade the other to the level of sickness....btw...sanjay has only agreed to put the name in the crdt cuz he HAS copied it off the muvie....so why get angry???? i am sure the italian or french version werent abt muslim n hindu stuff...so chill plz...and stop blaking others...farah khan n srk have their own muvie to promote n slb has his own...they dun need to stoop low to promote their muvies......they are celebs, stars and already have enuff publivcity...reading all this blaming others totally on ur own side shows how sick u r and yeah...makes me pretty sick!!!!

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Aphrodite

@Showbizz

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Posted: 18 years ago

Originally posted by: veryuniquestyle
SLB never stops copying other stories. 😆 He acts like he came up with the whole story.

When I watched the old american movie that was later copied into Black, I was shocked because the two movie are exactly alike.

Anyways, there are a lot of copy caters

I agree with that point of SLB . For a copycat he's a little too much .

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kiran

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Posted: 18 years ago

#10

Originally posted by: preethi_p_r

I agree with that point of SLB . For a copycat he's a little too much .

oh come on...he is a greta director...and even if he takes the plot the story he presents and the way he presents it is always different...but maybe u r rite in ur place...

Edited by kahish-rox - 18 years ago