Bollywood, Plagiarism and Piracy: Time to step off the High Horse and Feed It.

This is a preview of some brilliant work being done by a few guys in Mumbai on how much and how blatantly bollywood copies movies from other countries' movies. It's really sad that they get away with it, and a mystery why they haven't been sued into the stone age.

On the other hand, bollywood gets very uptight and righteous when it comes to piracy. I especially find amusing their ad where they say "You wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't steal a dvd from a store, then why do you steal a movie?" .... so we should stop downloading and thereby stop piracy. It's a pity that they don't listen to their own advice. Or perhaps, I should say it's a pity that the audience here remains uninformed and buys into their bullshit.

My advice: What bollywood needs to do is to:

1. Stop bitching about piracy.
2. Stop whining about not being internationally recognized (at the Oscars, Cannes etc.)
3. Stop gloating about how apparently bollywood makes the most number of movies in the world.
4. Change the system of a handful of 'stars' acting in each and every goddamn movie, and start hiring new talent.
   
5. Start putting more effort w.r.t. creativity.
   
6. Start getting their act together and stop acting like the greedy, untalented, unsophisticated amateurs that they currently show themselves to be.

btw: the movie is called "Four Step Plan" and I am starting to wonder whether they will ever release it, and if so, whether it would come on TV or not.

p.s. Personally the movie I hate most on account of unoriginality is "Phir Hera Pheri." I hate it on two accounts - it not only is an atrocious sequel to a really funny movie (Hera Pheri) but is a scene for scene copy of "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels."