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Rakesh Roshan's 'Krazzy 4' was a shoddy remake of the Micheal Keaton starrer 'The Dream Team' while it was common knowledge that the Amitabh-Salman starrer 'God Tussi Great Ho' was lifted from 'Bruce Almighty' . Both the Mallika Sherawat starrers were lifted from foreign sources. 'Ugly Aur Pagli' was a frame-to-frame copy of a Korean film 'Yeopgijeogin Geunyeo' (English title: My Sassy Girl) while 'Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam' was derived from Mel Brook's 'To Be Or Not To Be' which in turn was a remake of a 1942 film of the same name. While both the English films were nominated at the Oscars, the Indian version can surely win a Razzie.
Despite being evidently derived from a yesteryear Hindi film 'Aaj Ki Taaza Khab ar', the makers of 'Golmaal Returns' kept denying the fact. Not to forget Rohit Shetty's 'Sunday' was a remake of a Telugu film 'Anukokunda Oka Raju' . Irrfan Khan was funny in 'Dil Kabaddi' but one cannot laugh off the fact that it was a remake of Woody Allen's 'Husbands and Wives' . Rajshri looked for reference in their own library while remaking their old film 'Tapasya' as Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi .
T-Series decided to officially remake Subhash Ghai's 'Karz ' despite the fact that a version of the film was already hit amongst the audiences in the form of 'Om Shanti Om' . While Lindsay Lohan's 'Just My Luck' can just be tagged as the kick-off point for 'Kismet Konnection' , the year also saw its remake in the form of Good Luck . For the second half of 'Singh is Kinng' where Akshay Kumar poses Kirron Kher as a wealthy woman, Anees Bazmee has essentially derived the premise from Frank Capra's 'Lady for a Day' which he himself remade as 'A Pocketful of Miracles' later and was subsequently also remade by Jackie Chan as 'Ji Ji' .
Samar Khan clearly took the plot of the Tom Cruise ' Jack Nicholson starrer 'A Few Good Men' for his courtroom drama 'Shaurya' and Indianized it with a victimized Muslim angle. The same conflict was applied to 'Aamir' which was derived from a Filipino film 'Cavite' . 'Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na' director Abbas Tyrewala sketched the characters of 'De Taali' loosely based on the English sitcom 'Dawson's Creek' . Priyadarshan continued his custom of quick Malayalam remakes for 'Mere Baap Pehle Aap' which originated from 'Ishtam' . Randeep Hooda ' Shahana Goswami's Ru-ba-ru was a blatant face-off of 'If Only' . Anant Mahadevan acknowledged that his Minissha Lamba starrer 'Anamika' was an adaptation of 'Rebecca' .
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