Barfi Scenes and background score Inspired/Copied

The auther in the following link has done an amazing job in listing the sources of the scenes and background score of Barfi from which they are copies/inspired:

iTS NORMAL.. charlie chaplin inspired ab!

I was a little disappointed because most of the scenes that I liked in Barfi are blatently copied. The background score was superb but then even that has its sources. Pritam remains Pritam after all.

yeah .. there was one scene which was totally copied from the movie The Notebook (the scene where Ileana's mother takes her to show the guy she loved when she was younger)

Copy copy game common in bollywood...

Disappointed to know that :(...nevertheless it was a good movie, but producers/directors must acknowledge whenever they take a scene from another movie. I remember Bappi Lahiri once sued the pop band truth hurts for lifting "Kaliyon ka chaman"..hehe little do the foreign entertainment industry know that almost 80% of their movies and songs are copied by Bollywood..man bollywood should be sued, atleast that way they will start coming up with original stuff!!

I think there is a difference between copying and intertextuality. There is no such thing as entirely original, because everything is influenced by everything else, and the Charlie Chaplin that we think of as original has his roots in vaudeville and in Commedia Dell'Arte and so on and so forth. There is blatant plagiarism, done without thought, and only with the intention of cashing in on something successful and then there is taking something forward, or paying tribute to something. On most occasions, the Hindi film industry is blatantly plagiarist, and sometimes destroys the soul of what it copies by putting no thought into it. At other times, it is more innovative - taking something up but changing it, extending it, playing with it, and making something new and wonderful out of it. And that is what Barfi does, in my opinion. Of course, I am aware that this could be argued against - one's person's innovation is another person's ruination, that I am making this argument for Barfi and someone else may make it for Tezz (can't think of any other example at this point of time). I see that, and so will say this - I make this argument on a case by case basis, and in the case of Barfi I see intertextuality rather than plagiarism, creativity rather than mere copying. But it is an individual preference, an individual reading, and other individuals will have other readings and other preferences.

Even the climax of Kahani was picked from an Angelina Jolie flick.Even the climax of Kahani was picked from an Angelina Jolie flick.

My friend Alex and I kept pointing out the copied scenes throughout the entire movie.

Mr. Bean + Charlie Chaplin = Barfi!