Check out how Bollywood biggies are into cloning

Check out how Bollywood biggies are into cloning these days


Old movie names are 'borrowed' by newer filmmakers day in and day out. And at times they are remakes of the old original. That is how today, we've ended up having the old Dostana, the new Dostana; the old Don and the new Don (and the soon- to-happen newer Don) so on and so forth.

But the latest trend in Bollywood is to borrow the titles or at least parts of it at that moment itself. Well as they say, strike the iron when it's still hot.

Bollywood biggies are wasting no time in borrowing from big film titles. The latest example being that of the King Khan. When Rajinikanth discarded the title Robot of his next film and called it Enthiram, SRK happily caught hold of it. Shah Rukh did not stop there. He went ahead to register nine movie titles which had the word Robot in it for his company Red Chillies. The titles registered by Shah Rukh Khan are Robot, Mein Hoon Robot, Mera Robot, Pyara Robot, Robot a Hero, Robot Hoon Mein, Robot My Hero, RoboticsRobott.
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Recently there have been quite a few films which have either 'borrowed' titles or plots from big banner films, more often than not, to ride on the former's success (if any, of course

Delhi Belly and Dilli 6 and Underbelly

Delhi seems to be a hot spot for Mumbai filmmakers at the moment. After so many films on Mumbai, Mumbai Meri Jaan, Mumbai Cutting, Mumbai Chakachak, will come two films Delhi Belly and Dilli 6.

The movies, which have similar titles are still under production. Dilli 6 to be made by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra stars Abhishek Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor while Aamir's Delhi Belly to be directed by Abhinav Deo will star Aamir (in a negative role) and his nephew Imran Khan.

But that's not all. Aamir's Delhi Belly has also stirred up a new battle with his one-time friend Amole Gupte. Gupte has already started work on a project called Underbelly and has already started blaming Aamir of stealing his title.
Now we are waiting for Rakeysh Mehra to start blaming Aamir as well. But if you ask me, the names of either film is really not worth fighting for or over. After all, the columnist Jug Suraiya did write Delhi Belly years ago and besides what's so innovative about putting a numeral in after a city name…

Fashion and World Of Fashion

Now this is something new. Produced by Vijayshree Productions and directed by Sanjay Khadelwal, here's a film that got inspired by Madhur Bhandarkar's Fashion even before the latter released.

And it's not just the name, the director Sanjay seems to have borrowed. The movie that calls itself The World Of Fashion, talks about the darker side of the fashion industry just like its inspiration and also stars three women and one man like the former.

The difference however is the complete sleaze that fills the inspired version. Director Sanjay Khandelwal seems to have adapted Madhur's film into a low budget B-grade form. The actors who play the characters of Priyanka, Kangana, Mugdha and Arjan are absolutlely unheard of people called Priti Soni, Reema Ramchandani, Kashish and Ejaz Khan

Phoonk and Rooh

What is up with Sanjay Khandelwal, one wonders. This filmmaker it seems has taken it on himself to make B-grade versions of all the big Bolly flicks it seems. As if getting inspired by Fashion was not enough for him, he has also turned to RGV for inspiration

GV had chosen black magic as a subject for his film Phoonk; Sanjay on the other hand decided to make a film about 'black power'. Though we may never really know the difference. The 'black power' film coincidentally also has a little girl who is taken over by demons. It's what we call 'eerie' similarity.
However, Sanjay Khandelwal seems to have hit it right. RGV's Phoonk did well. And Madhur's Fashion also might be a stunner! Who knows, there may just be an audience who'd want to watch even the B-grade version of the successful films!

TPTM and TLTM

The first set of films to enter such a controversy was of course the Yash Raj produced and Kunal KohliThoda Pyaar Thoda Magic and actor-turned-producer Sahil Chadda's Thodi Life Thoda Magic
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Though the filmmakers claimed that TLTM was registered earlier and it was Yash Raj who stole their title (which could well be true considering Kunal Kohli's project was unnamed till early this year), whatever publicity the Jackie Shroff-starrer got was due to its title controversy.

A series of fights followed with multiplex owners banning TLTM, which the industry declared to be a Yash Raj ploy and so on and so forth.

Nonetheless TPTM bombed so badly at the box office, that Rani and Saif wanted to go into hibernation. It could not support itself so Sahil's dreams of riding on it's success (if any) were soon squished.

Well, they say 'What's in a name?' We say, ask the Bolly filmmakers that. With the fights and controversies taking place over movie titles it seems people have forgotten what a film should actually be about…the story and NOT the name!

Umm never knew this or seen any of the films looking foward to fashion though.