Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Farah ka "Inspiration" K(a)han??!

I always like Farah Khan's films...be it Main Hoon Naa or Om Shanti Om. They are complete entertainers. Leave your brain at home and enjoy! The movies are nothing out of ordinary; they are a great mixture of all the masala that the audience wants to see, and pay 100 bucks for!

Speaking of OSO, let me get to the point...the dialogues in the film. Many are nicely penned..make lot of sense and give you a perspective on life!

For example, the sher "Kitni shiddat se tumhe paane ki koshish ki hai.. Ke har zarre ne mujhe tumse milane ki saazish ki hai.."..wah wah!

And "Hamari zindagi bhi hamare hindi filmon ke jaisi hai.. jaha pe end mein sab kuch theek ho jaata hai.. "Happies Endings".. Lekin agar End mein sab kuch theek na ho to woh the end nahi hain dosto.. Picture abhi baaki hai.."

I was appreciating the beauty of these lines and the writer's effort in coming up with simple, yet effective philosophy, when I came across a quote in the book "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho:

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it"

And I noticed that this has been used word to word as an "inspiration" in OSO:
"Agar kisi cheez ko dil se chaho to saari kayanat tumhe usse milane ki koshish me lag jaati hai.."

This seriously left a doubt in my mind about the originality of "creative" souls in the industry! If I caught this one case of "copy...paste", there might be hundreds more out there! Where is the creativity then? And aren't we always taught to cite our references?

After all, how much "inspiration" is too much?

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