Talk:Bollywood films and plagiarism

message: We asked people to cite at least one review claiming plagiarism, and discuss the pros and cons at the article for the film. No one is bothering to do that. People are just putting up accusations and leaving. Are we going to have to do a weekly prune of allegations that don't meet the standard? Zora 23:44, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

message: I see lot of movies that are uncited and those that are cited are often cited from unreliable sources. Reliables sources are newspaper, journal articles and any other scholarly work. People will find movies that they see similar to movies that they saw before. For example, all sports are similar where under-dogs win against some big dogs. To accuse Lagaan for plagiarism of Mighty Duck or any other sport movies is ridicules. There are so many American movies where Alien invade the Earth or horror movie of where the killer is on the lose and killing people but if Bollywood do any of those common theme that movie will be accused of plagiarism  Tarikur (talk) 00:23, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cite a reliable source or it should be deleted

message: Sarkar cannot be considered a plagerized movie. In no shape or form did that movie copy anything from the Godfather aside from the way Abhishek Bachchan sat in the chair (in the manner of Michael Corleone) for a few minute scene near the end of the movie. And Ram Gopal Verma specifically said that his movie was inspired by the Godfather, even though the stories of both movies are extremely different.
Namantra 14 July 2006
Fight Club is also completely different than the American Fight Club. Same name doesn't mean plagarized. Which makes me wonder if people who add these actually watch the movies....
Namantra 6 August 2006
:Respectfully, have you actually seen both movies?  The font and some of the background music is lifted directly from the American version.  And the "rules of fight club" refered to twice the the Hindi version is one of the most famous parts of the American Version.  It's really hard to miss that.  --Richrobison 00:15, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: j

message: Due to the failure of this list to be maintained at acceptable standards of verifiability, a proposed rewrite has been started here. See also the Indian cinema WikiProject's talk page. --Sam Blanning(talk) 17:31, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I support Samuel's initiative and have added another film to the rewrite. This article is out of control now. It is full of baseless accusations. Zora 00:29, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I think it's safe to just replace what's there now with the rewrite.  I am little worried about "plagiarism" because there is a lot of borrowing which shouldn't exactly be classified under the label of plagiarism... gren グレン 07:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: Although I have not added any movies to this article, I've removed the prod, and added five refs. Will add more. utcursch | talk 16:11, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like we had an edit conflict with our last posts to this page. When I rewrote the article I incorporated your references on Main Aisa Hi Hoon and Zinda, and I've explained why I haven't included Jo Bole So Nihaal and Ek Ajnabee. That leaves Phir Hera Pheri, which I forgot to mention above. I couldn't quite understand from the reviews where the similarities were, and I haven't seen Phir myself, so I wasn't able to write it up. I'd be happy if you or someone else could add it back, though. --Sam Blanning(talk) 16:19, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok with me. utcursch | talk 07:05, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: Kaante, the 2002 movie, directed by Sanjay Gupta totally ripped off Quentin Tarintino's Reservoir Dogs. Though it also stole from The Usual Suspects.
:According to a Times of India article I found, Gupta "doesn't shy from admitting that the film is a remake of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs". In my opinion if you acknowledge your source, it's not plagiarism. --Sam Blanning(talk) 13:32, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it is still plagiarism because he doesn't acknowledge the source in the movie(in the credits), isn't that right?  Fkh82 22:24, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: KAANTE

message: does anyone know the name of the hindi film which copied 'the others' starring nicole kidman ? THE BOLLYWOOD ADAPTATION IS 100% copy its not even funny !!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaygajera (talk • contribs) 02:18, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[The Others]]

message: I found following webpage has list of movies. Not sure which will be qualified as plagiarised ones from wikipedia standard.
http://www.akhilesh.in/life/india/bollywoodinspirations.php
I have been maintaining this list for past some time now. The aim is to list down the movies based on the amount of copy/inspiration done. This is indeed difficult to quantify as the nature and number of pieces lifted vary and difficult to judge. There are various components that a movie copies from other movies. As mentioned in this WiKi that music is one, but then there are others things also, like in one account I rememebr lifting of entire original movie clip of few seconds. 
My question right now is: in this WiKi are we going to mention only the movie which copies the main plot or major plot(s), or this also aims to capture the other types of plagiarization? 
Example of Scene Lifting:
* Dumb and Dumber's Urine in the Bottle scene, copied in Mela
* Matrix's Building Shootout Scene, copied in Awara Paagal Deewana
* A James Bond movie's villains den scene, 2-3 seconds of orinial clip lifted in a Devanand's movie (do not rememebr the name right now).
Note: I have added the above link in the External Links section. Hope that is OK.''
Toakhilesh (talk) 12:42, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Webpage for list

message: The song Nasha Yeh Pyaar Ka from Mann is an exact copy of Toto Cutugno's L'Italiano.
69.244.234.39 17:05, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  song 

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 17:32, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Obviously the confusion here is the definition of plagiarism, as well as the "credibility" of sources. this is what I feel.
Messenger VS Message
Granted, one may say that blogs or even sites like akhilesh may not be mainstream as newspapers. However, it does not take an expert to point out similarities, one just needs to have satched both the source and the copy, and be able to pinpoint AND state the exact nature of what is copied, be it core plot points or scene-for-scene shots. 
For akhilesh, it has a "Copy Detail" link for most of the items linked which gives a breakdown of what exactly is being copied. Its merely a statement of fact. One does not need to hold a phD in film studies to catch these. 
Definition of Plagiarism
There are a few tests for this. 
1) 1st is the actual copying of content and ideas. This can be easily spotted, all one needs is to have seen both movies, or even read detailed synopsis for both (of course "scene-for-scene" and "shot for shot" accusations require actual watching of the film to be substantiated. But easy to spot. One or two similar scenes can scrape past with the homage moniker. But not when it gets to the extent that many people go "hey, that movie is just like that other movie I saw". As compared to "hey, that scene is just like that scene I saw in that other movie".
2) Crediting the source. One may say that just merely "saying" that one credits a particular film for inspiration is crediting. But one must consider that we are talking about commercial enterprises where rights and intellectual property equals to hard cash. Its good to know that some directors at least admit that they took their sources from a particular movie, but is the source actually being "credited" or acknowledged anywhere? 
Were rights paid for or secured to make a remake? Is there a "Based on a novel/film by ..." anywhere in the OFFICIAL film/press releases? (Non official ones do not count. In fact its these that are pointing out the cases of plagiarism... and if the director himself does not admit it, the implications are understood). The film Don is headed in the right direction by FAILING the 2nd criteria I identified since it acknowledged and paid for the rights to use the ideaas in the original film. Now how many of the films on the original list can make the same claim?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zhanzhao (talk • contribs) 21:23, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with everything. But you must cite sources and in this article specifically regardless of other articles they appear in. Akhilesh is not reliable, therefore is not here to stay under no circumstances whatsoever. The rules must be followed. In any case this list is considered for total removal, as nothing encyclopedic and beneficial (except for vandalism and policy violation) does not come from it. Shahid • Talk2me 21:58, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarifications for identifying plagiarism 

message: This rampant so-called "protectionism" is getting ridiculous. Case in point. Zinda had already been identified by the distributors of the original Oldboy film as being a copycat. A lawsuit is possibly even pending. []. The links are given both here, on the individual film's articles as well as in this discussion above.  Search Google for Zinda and Oldboy and see what you get. Go to the Zinda and you even get a point for point partial list of the parts of the films that were copied, plotwise as well as cinematogrphy. And yet it does not qualify as alleged or even outright plagiarism because it keeps getting removed. Onus is on the ones removing this films and other films to justify why this is so.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zhanzhao (talk • contribs) 13:49, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zinda is an a prime example of plagiarism 

message: bollywoodmantra, bollycat, desiclub all the oher sources are not reliable. If you can prove otherwise do it and then add whatever you want. Shahid • Talk2me 12:10, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: Since User:Shshshsh refuses to give reasons for why sites were banned, I shall get this ball rolling again for the benefit of everyone. 
One of the sources: Iefilmi.com. 
The site of the India-EU Film Initiative. Headed by Jag Mundhra - Movie director, and Pervaiz Alam - a former award-winning BBC journalist, iscreenwriter and documentary film-maker., who also edits the site.
We'll run this down WP:RS.
Given the credentials of its members and its editor, its definitely credible.
Given the organizations role and objectives, its obviously subject to peer review.
It is not self-published, being the site of an actual organization.
Its an official website for an actual organisation involved with the Indian film industry in an objective level and stand.
And yet according th user:Shshshsh's edit [] iefilm.com, one of the organization's official website is not allowed, with all the films sourced from that site being removed from the "films with alleged plagiarism" list.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zhanzhao (talk • contribs) 12:02, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Validity of sources 

message: I've protected the page 3 days based on the request at WP:RFPP. Please sort this out, here, rather than edit warring when protection expires. rootology (C)(T) 14:07, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  edit warring, protected 

message: I'm considering placing this article for deletion. It lacks any decent sources except for a list of films which are "alleged" to contain plagiarism. The article is not encyclopedic and I think the main points can be covered adequately in the main article without resorting to this as it stands anyway unless somebody can find some decent books to write a good article. Why do we need an article about copied films or films which may bear some resemblance to Hollywood films?? Surely there is some disagreement on what is direct plagiarism and what bears a little resemblance. So Bollywood produces a mass of films and occasionally may use ideas from other films. So what? Has anybody from Hollywood ever sued anybody in Bollywood for copied films??   Dr. Blofeld      White cat  11:52, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually yes. Zinda/Oldboy and the Partner_(2007_film/(Hitch (film) pending lawsuits were stated in the main article.Zhanzhao (talk) 12:18, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Article for deletion

message: As far as people who are demanding sources, I only have one thing to say that you don't even need to see the complete movie, just when you see the plots, you can easily conclude plagiarism. Some can be verified by just looking at the posters only. Also many movies are also copied scene by scene and dialogue by dialogue. 
And I have not even mentioned movies which are not directly copied from a single movie but consist of its scenes being copied from a range of different movies.
There are more and many more but let me add a few more examples:
Partner ( Hitch)
Deewane Huye Paagal ( There is something about Mary)
Desi Boyz ( Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo)
Kyon Ki Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta ( Liar Liar)
Players (The Italian Job)
Dhoom 3 ( The Prestige)
Housefull ( Meet the Parents)
Satte Pe Satta ( Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
Agneepath ( Scarface)
The Burning Train (Shinkansen daibakuha)
The list goes on and on......
 see this link - http://www.imdb.com/list/ls004057481/
115.246.69.25 (talk) 16:06, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  See the complete list of copied movies