Shahrukh’s Don

Don this is an evergreen movie. One of this story writer Javed Akhtar’s son Farhan Aktar has remade this film with Shah Rukh Khan in 2006. Priyanka Chopra and Isha Koppikar are the female leads in this movie. Kareena Kapoor also starred in a key role.

Farhan completely changed the look of this movie. He shot most of the movie in Malaysia to give it an ultra modern look. Javed Akhtar penned the lyrics for Shankar Eshaan Loy‘s music. Karan Kashyap penned the dialogues in this movie. As Don and as Vijay, Shah Rukh Khan gave equal perfomance to Amitabh Bachchan.

Farhan Aktar planned every thing well for this movie to make it a bigger hit than the original version. Songs and dialogues received good response. Kareena Kapoor‘s song became one of the best item songs in Bollywood.

Wanted Dead And Alive

Salman Khan’s Wanted Dead And Alive opened with very good response at Box Office. But received average talk from audience and poor reviews from most of the critics. By the end of the week movie went to super hit range. Finally managed to satisifie Salman Khan fans a lot

After 2 years Salman Khan has bagged a super hit. This is an action movie with some good comedy and romantic scenes. story revolves around Radhe ( Salman Khan) a goon joins with a mafia gang and kills opponent gang.

Ghani Bhai ( Prakash Raj) who is this mafia gang’s  don returns to Mumbai and kills one of his rival Golden ( Aseem Merchant). City commissioner Ashraf (Govinda Namedo) catches Ghani Bhai. Ghani Bhai manages to come out from prison and comes to know an under cover cop is there in his gang.

He also comes to know that under cover cop son of an ex police officer ( Vinod Khanna) and kills him.  Who is that under cover cop and what is the relation between Radhe and that ex police officer is the remaining story.

Ayesha Takia is female lead. Pokiri which is original to Wanted was also started its run with average talk and negative reviews but became a huge hit.

Naqaab

Naqaab was 2007 Bollywood movie, directed by Abbas-Mustan duo. Abbas Mustan was inspired by a British movie Dot The I while writing this movie script. Akshay Khanna played the negative role for this movie. Urvashi Sharma and Boby Deol are the lead cast for the movie.

Sophie (Urvashi Sharma) engages with Karan Oberoi (Bobby Deol) who is a millionaire and beautiful guy. But after some days she falls in love with a Vicky. She always tries to control her feelings towards Vicky. On the day of her marriage with Karan, she leaves the marriage hall for Vicky. Shocked Karan commits for suicide. She realises her mistake, but there onwards the real mystery starts.

Akshay Khanna gave excellent performance. We never this is Urvashi Sharma’s first movie. Lara Dutta appeared in a character which not having proper identity.

Baazigar

Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan from Baazigar has had many super hits in his career. But Baazigar has a special place in his movies.

This movie gave a superb turn to his career. Shilpa Shetty also started her successful career with this movie only. Abbas- Mastan duo directed this movie. Abbas-Mastan were inspired by a British Film A Kiss Before Dying while narrating Baazigar.

But instead of copying each and every scene they took only the movie base line about the murder and making it look like a suicide. In A Kiss Before Dying the hero kills his lover to leave her and exposes that as suicide. Then he loves her twin sister. He is an university going poor guy. To become a rich person only he loves that rich girl but kills her.

In Baazigar, Abbas-Mastan  added the revenge concept. This was made to receive good response in India. Actually A Kiss Before Dying was also not an original. That was also inspired by a novel with the same name which was written by Ira Levin. In A Kiss Before Dying Sean Young played a dual role. In Bollywood both characters were played by Shilpa Shetty and Kajol.  Abbas-Mustan was inspired by Goodbye Lover for the movie Race.

Race

Abbas-Mustan director duo are experts in copying Hollywood super hits to Bollywood. They gave many super hits like this. They adopts only the main story theme and screenplay and changes entire story and gives a stylish look to it. Mostly it looks like a different movie compared with the original.

A Song From Race

The 2008 block buster hit Race was also a copy of the Hollywood flick Goodbye Lover. Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif and Akshay Khanna played the lead roles in this movie. This movie was shot in South Africa and Dubai. Race did a very nice job in Tollywood and Kollywood also.

Anil Kapoor, Sameera Reddy, Johnny Lever and Dalip Tahil also featured in important roles. Abbas-Mastan showed Shah Rukh in a negative character for Baazigar and Priyanka Chopra as a villain in Aitraaz. This time it was Akshay Khanna and  Katrina Kaif‘s  turn for Race.

36 china town

36 China Town is a crime thriller. Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor starred in this film. This movie was inspired by a Hollywood flick Once Upon A Crime. Sean Young, John Candy and James Belushi were the lead cast in that movie. In 36 China Town Isha Koppikar played key role.

This movie is about a casino owner Sonia Chang (Isha Koppikar) in Goa. She lives with her son. One day she finds her son is missing. She gives a paper ad for her son and also announces 25000 rupees reward. Priya (Kareena Kapoor) and Raj (Shahid Kapoor) meet Sonia’s son.

When they come to the casino to meet Sonia they find her dead body. These two become first suspects for the murder. How Raj and Priya proved their innocence is the remaining.

Akshay Khanna has played a police inspector role. Paresh Rawal and Payal Rohatgi are other lead cast. Upen Patel made his debut with this movie . Priyanka Chopra and Tanushree Dutta starred in guest roles. Shahid Kapoor was very good in his character but Kareena failed to impress. She was also one reason for this movie’s failure.

The Burning Train

The Burning Train was a Bollywood film. It was released in 1980. Later Hollywood writers were inspired by this movie while writing Runaway Train. Ravi Chopra took this movie and completed it with high budget. But this movie didn’t reach his expectations at the box office. He received complements from many Bollywood people.

Vinod Verma (Vinod Khanna) dreams to design a super fast train. He spends many years on that project, and finally he designs and takes permission from Indian railways to keep his train on track. He plans a record breaking journey from Delhi To Mumbai in 14 hours. But somebody destroys the train and makes it burn on the journey. Finally Vinod’s friends Ashok (Dharmendra) and Rakesh (Vinod Mehra) manage to end the journey.

Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh and Jeetendra are the other lead cast in this movie.

Zanjeer

Zanjeer is one of the best movies in Amitabh’s career. Before this movie, he was considered as a romantic hero. But with his role as a cop in this movie, he became the angry young man. Actually Dev Anand had to act in this movie instead of Amitabh.

Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) is a sincere police officer. Teja (Ajit) a gangster sends Vijay to jail with a plan. After he is released from jail, Vijay plans to take revenge on Teja. He finds Teja killed his parents 20 years back. Finally he takes revenge on Teja and marries Mala (Jaya Bhaduri).

Pran appeared in a positive role as Amitabh‘s friend Sher khan. Prakash Mehra was the director for this movie. Kalyanji-Anandji bagged the Filmfare award for their music for this movie.

Ankhen

Ankhen was a spy thriller, it was directed by Ramanand Sagar. With this movie only Dharmendra became a top hero in Bollywood. It was a very expensive movie. Director Saagar has shot this movie in many countries.

Story starts with the blast in Assam. Salim works as undercover cop in the terrorist group who involved in the bomb blasts. Syed head of this group identifies Salim and kills him. Later to report about Syed’s group Sunil enters into Assam. What are the challenges Sunil faced and how he gave end to Syed is the remaining.

Dharmendhra gave very good action in James Bond style character. Mala Sinha and Mehamood are other lead roles in the movie. This movie has huge expectations in those days. Because Farz which also a spy thriller in the same combo was a huge hit before this movie.

Ittefaq

Ittefaq was a Bollywood block buster in 1969. It was remake for Hollywood movie called Signpost to Murder. Yash Chopra has directed this movie. Rajesh Khanna appeared in lead role as talented painter.

Dilip Roy (Rajesh Khanna) is a talented painter. He spends most of his time in painting and selling them. His wife Sushma (Alka) is not happy with this. She asks him to spend more time with her. One day while he is painting seriously she asks him to come with her to a party. He rejects and continues in his work.
Sushma grabs the brush and throws the paintings. In the quick anger Dilip beats and kills her.

Police men arrests him and produced in the court. According to the court order police men sends him to hospital. He escapes from there and hides in a woman called Rekha (Nanda)’s house. The thing which he don’t know is Rekha’s husband is already murdered before he arriving.

Who killed him and how Dilip escaped from the police is the remaining story. Bindu and Madan Puri were appeared in other lead roles.