Plagiarism row back with Deepika’s latest Levi’s ad
This is not homage this is intellectual theft! It’s so unfair to our wonderful production designer @shalzoid to have her work ripped off like that (sic).” She also stated that the copycat culture in India needs to be called out and cancelled. “You would think a foreign production company and director would know better. Are you so creatively bankrupt? What were you thinking? PS. contrary to what clickbait news headlines say, this has nothing to do with Deepika Padukone or anyone else in the cast (sic),” she added. Rupin Suchak, who is the production designer for the ad, also agreed to have been ‘inspired’ by
JUDGEMENTAL HAI
KYA | A European artist accused the makers of
the dance studio while developing the set of the new Levi’s ad.
OLD HABITS DIE HARD
Film historian Imtiaz Baghdadi points out how earlier filmmakers used to call a copy as homage to another filmmaker or creator.
| The composer possibly around twenty-seven copied songs in his repertoire. Some of them that could reflect guilt were ironically called Dil ne churaya kyun, Neend churayee meri besides other hits such as Ek shararat hone ko hai
ANU MALIK
“Even Gulzar’s Angoor was a copy of Do Dooni Chaar. While Bollywood would shamelessly copy music and film scripts, the globalisation and now the social media has ensured that such IPR thefts are caught rather easily,” he states. When the song Nashe si
MAHESH BHATT |
Several films creatively backed by Mahesh Bhatt have been clear remakes.
Among these are films such as the
1958-Hollywood blockbuster Houseboat, which was remade as the
1993-Bollywood hit Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke. The 1996-Sally Fields thriller Eye for an Eye was remade as the
1998-Bollywood film Dushman, the
1991-thriller Body Heat became the
2003-thriller Jism
chadh gayi from Befikre, released, it became the first Hindi movie song to cross 300 million views on YouTube. Suddenly it came under the radar of music lovers around the world. Many compared the song, which was composed by Vishal Shekhar and produced by
Michael Mcleary, to Junjou romantica, a song from an animated Japanese series. However, Vishal dismissed the similarities as an ‘uncanny coincidence’, even while admitting, “There is no doubt that the first lines of both the songs are the same.”