Posts Tagged ‘Hollywood to Bollywood’

Naqaab

April 23, 2010

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.

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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.

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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

April 23, 2010

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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.

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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.

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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 KajolAbbas-Mustan was inspired by Goodbye Lover for the movie Race.

36 china town

April 23, 2010

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.

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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.

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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.

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Ittefaq

April 19, 2010

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.

Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets

April 15, 2010

Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets was a Bollywood movie in 2005. The entire movie was shot in London. It was remake for Hollywood movie The Usual Suspects. This movie has very huge star cast like Anil Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Sunil Shetty and Emraan Hashmi.

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After the WTC towers blasts in New York, all the other countries who supports to America concentrates on their own security and suspects every small incident. On one Christmas evening, five suspect-able incidents takes place in London including huge amount of money robbery. London police men arrests innocent Indian couple Pipi (Irfaan Khan) and Simi (Tanushree Dutta).
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They interrogates them and marks them as Al Qaeda members. Crime reporter Mansoon Iyer (Sushma Reddy) and her boy friends advocate Krishan ( Anil Kapoor) starts investigating this case to prove this people are innocent. What happen to Krishan and Mansoon in the investigation, what are the truths they found is the suspense in the movie.

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Movie was marked as disaster. Mumaith Khan and Emma Button gave special appearances in this movie.