Forget the fact that Kambakkht Ishq is a dud of a film. What irks me the most is when director Sabbir Khan says, ‘KI was an original idea’. It goes like this, in Times of India, today, “Yes, we are aware that there are influences from Pammal…. KI was scripted after a lot of trial and error. But when the idea of Akshay Kumar playing a stuntman came up, someone told us about the Kamal Haasan film. That’s when we approached the producers of Pammal… and acquired the rights”.
So, a few questions? Just because the hero in both the films is a stuntman, you found it similar to the Tamil film? What about all the other specific situations? What about the 2nd lead pair, who become the reason for the lead pair’s antics against each other? And, what about that pendant/ watch that goes inside the hero’s stomach? And sings? Jesus, Sabbir…do you think India is a country full of brainless twits? To believe you when you say, ‘I scripted it, but then found someone else’s film to contain 90% of what my idea was…so we paid them to buy the script’. Goddamn it! Why is it so hard for Bollywood film maker’s to accept a remake? Is that a sin? An insult? Of course not! It only shows how bold and sincere you are – to showcase the source proudly and display the kind of thoughts you have added to the source. But alas, what Sabbir has done is pathetic to say the least – he’s added a fart, a lot of senseless swearing and loads of money, all quite meaninglessly, into a humongous turkey that trade analysts will be quite happy to talk of, in an excited tone, about the kind of opening it had.
The same line of thought was used previously by Rajkumar Gupta (even the thought of spinning the response for a ‘remake?’ question seems to be lifted…for heaven’s sake!), for his Aamir. BollywoodHungama quoted UTV Spotboy head, Vikas Bahl, with this piece of drivel, “Basically, Aamir is written and directed by Rajkumar Gupta and he wrote the story even before the English film, Cavite was released. We had registered it at the Writers’ Association. But then after some time we realized that the story of Cavite was very similar to Aamir hence we approached the writers and makers of Cavite and bought the adaptation rights as that’s the right thing to do”. Yeah…right!
Rajkumar Gupta wrote the complete film. And then found that all the scenes that came out of his head were used in the Philipino original…Oh the poor man. His thoughts have been stolen…boohoohoo! If this was in a Philip K Dick novel, I’d have at least bought this nonsense. Such lame behaviour digs Bollywood’s credibility deeper than anyone can think of.
