Atlast We have Cogent Evidence to prove that Hollywood copied us

On Wednesday 20th July, a friend of mine has forwarded an email regarding a conspiracy on the origin of the movie “AVATAR”. 

I got interested and just set up a mood to look what so spicy about the one of the best movie which really amazed me. The email was started with serious note. As the trivia flows to the end makes me to Rolling on the Floor Laughing My Ass off (ROTFLMAO).

We have been witnessing consistently that ideas and thought are being copied from the foreign movies. Not that all the movies have been copied but something around 10% of overall film has shades of foreign resemblance. 

But this email makes me real dumb and don’t know how to console myself. What a strange comparison and how one could think of. Okay.. No more Suspense. Here we go..

AVATAR - A REMAKE OF VIETNAM COLONY

When I was watching Avatar for the ‘n’th time, a strange thought came to my mind, 'Is this film not similar to Vietnam colony?'

And remember Vietnam colony released in 1994 and James Cameroon said that the Avatar script was ready in 1995 and he also said that Avatar had many inspirations from India including the title (Something fishy).

So let’s compare the two stories side by side:

Vietnam Colony: Prabhu and Koundamani are appointed by a real estate company to a notorious colony called Vietnam colony as this colony has high real estate values.

Avatar: Sam Worthington is appointed by the RDA Corporation to go to Pandora as the place has a valuable mineral called unabtomium.

Vietnam Colony: Prabhu disguises himself as a writer and becomes a member of the colony.

Avatar: Sam disguises himself as a Navi and becomes a member of Pandora.

Vietnam Colony: Prabhu falls in love with the heroine (Jujilipa) who is a resident of Vietnam colony.

Avatar: Sam falls in love with Saldana who is a resident of Pandora

Vietnam Colony: While Prabhu was trying to cheat the colony residents and throw them out of the colony, he understands that the company is doing injustice and tries to help the residents

Avatar: While Sam was trying to cheat the Pandora residents, he understands that the company is doing injustice and tries to help the residents.

Vietnam Colony: Prabhu finally joins hands with the colony residents and fights against his company.

Avatar: Sam joins hands with the Navis and fights against his company.

Vietnam colony: At the end of the movie Prabhu becomes a Vietnam colony resident.

Avatar: At the end, Sam becomes a Pandaro resident.

Aren’t the 2 movies similar…?

Even some scenes had similarities. Remember the scene where the auto driver gets afraid of the rowdy (Ravuthar) but Prabhu thinks that the auto driver is afraid of him. There is a similar scene in Avatar (first half) where a small beast gets afraid of a bigger one but Sam things that the beast is afraid of him.

There seems to be only one difference between the two movies. One made with more than 1000 crores, another with less than a crore!!  

ச்சே ச்சே! கடைசில போயும் போய் “Ravuthar” சீன் காபி அடிச்சுட்டாங்களே பா !!!!! 

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Shor In The City

Shor In The City, one of the best movies in Hindi film industry. Multiple story plot will always makes its mark in all the way. 

The story starts with 5 different casts and their life style in Mumbai city. The transformation from one character to another charter and the sequence of getting their own karma back is really a pleasant to watch. 

Best part of the movie is the pace. The pace of the movie was held right from the beginning and everyone in the film is in search of something. As like Hollywood, Bollywood also has a separate division as casting director and it’s good to know that they are succeeded. Every cast lives in their character.

There are no obstacles in the screenplay and no hindrance in its travel by unwanted songs. Sendhil Ramamurthy, an US based NRI shines in his character and his character shows how society turns a good one to bad or even ugly. But he shines to eminence and receives our applause. 

The movie is mixed with comedy and dark face of terror. The music plays a vital part in holding the sensation throughout the film. 

To be honest, I am not interested in watching Hindi movies often other than Aamir’s production. The world can address India in many ways but the most probable way is definitely through Bollywood. Two things are most famous in India, one is Cricket and another one is Bollywood. 

Bollywood cinemas will follow a particular formula if one of the films turns up with good profit. For example, if a smuggler type of story succeeds, we can expect the same type of story followed by. But I could say, there are some couple of good movies was released recent times in Bollywood which impresses me a lot.  A shor in the city is one of them. It insists in Karma is a Bitch.

Shor In The City

8/10

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Deiva Thirumagal, a perfect classy film which will make you wipes your eyes.

Deiva Thirumagal presents itself as a much awaited movie of 2011 for people to know whether the movie will bag a best performance in all sides or it is better than the original version Hollywood flick “I am Sam”. 

If you haven’t watched I am Sam before, then this film would be a impressing film for the Tamil audience. But if you do, then you may be ended up with disappointment like I do.The saddest part is there are no due credit given to the original version and many of the scenes are looted as it looks like in the previous.

The remaking job is not as easy as it needs a special effort to sculpt your mind with other’s chisel. There is no sin in bringing a master piece to every set of audience nevertheless in what language the film is.

AL Vijay did a good job in presenting a story with almost major alteration in the 2^nd half screenplay to do reflect as the story is occurring between Krishna and Nila.

Chiyaan Vikram proves again as an ace actor by representing himself as mentally disable person with the behavior of 6 years old kid.There are few scenes where the screen will get blur until your hands wipes off your tears. We will get a felling of crying only if we travels along with the character, no doubt Chiyaan will make us to travel. 

The classy part is the conversation between the Vikram and a cute girl Baby Sarah which will melts your heart. The Baby girl is so elegant and did better than Dakota fanning in English version.Before Intermission, either Vikram performance or Anushka’ one, I was literally visualized to Sean Penn & Michelle Pfeiffer respectively.  After the interval, Chiyaan stands off and instructs this is my film.One of the plus factors to the film is GV Prakash’s music as it turns minus too for his repetitive copy cat. Proof here.

Overall, it was a good attempt in presenting the Hollywood film in the smell of Kollywood at almost. 

Trivia: I am Sam part was unofficially remade in Bollywood in the name of Main Aisa Hi Hoon. When comparing with this Deiva Thirumagal is far better with some changes.

Deiva Thirumagal, a perfect classy film which will make you wipes your eyes.
7.5/10

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Limitless

Limitless.., The story starts from the climax scene, as we already witnessed in many movies before. A writer (Eddie), who blinks under the blinking cursor to start a book and feels lazy to concentrate in writing, As a result of his career goes to question mark, his girl friend broke up and decided to move away from him.

After broke up, Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) walking along with the road and gets a chance to meet his ex-wife’s brother who is a drug dealer. Eddie gets a chance to experience a new energizing drug for brain to work at 100% from him.

The Drug works pretty well and he experiences the effect by the way he is pleasing his landlord’s wife over a no rent issues. Due to the adrenaline flush of the drug, he was able to create more thoughts and finally he came up with some 500 pages book in an overnight. The publishers were impressed with his work and decided to make profit with his work. Eddie got greedy and went up to his brother in law for more drugs which is named as NZT. The drug dealer uses Eddie to get his laundries and breakfast from shops because he is a target victim to be killed by his market competitors. Eddie reached the apartment, he found him dead and the house was dug into for drugs. He informed 911 about the murder, and started searching the NZT. He got a bunch of drug along with cash under the kitchen stove.

From that incident, he uses the drug to open a mind for his 100% output and gets flourished in all forms of business in particular stock trading. In between he goes through all type of situation and screenplay flows without any flaws.

The transition between before drug and after drug effect by the Eddie was visualized so remarkably. The excellent thriller makes us unpredictable the very next scene and living along with a writer. Even though, it’s a good commercial flick which tries with little hard to come under the category of science-fiction.

This movie has a new type of name title sequence which was not found in any of the movies before and it's a brand new one. As sum up, Limitless was a good movie to pass some 2 hours with Eddie Morra.

Limitless, A drug which provides limitless energy, stimulates to achieve success and the way to tackle the situational enemies.

Limitless

6/10

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180

For every movie review, there would be a trickle of thought either the film would be impressing you or it kills you, the former only leads any critic to write a review. This film 180 is in the category that reviewing itself is not feel interested to do.

The movie do not impress any set of audience even the girls who are madly charm with Sidharth. A high capable technical crew are goes vain with weak or no screenplay.

Hardly five minutes is enough to narrate the story and two lines is enough to express the incident. Rather than saying idea, incident is the opt word.

"Sidharth and Priya Anand falling in love on the follow-up with accident.Sidharth is suffering with cancer without any symptoms. So he decided to move away from his wife by leaving his wife to his best pal. Sidharth,on his way to exploration met with nithya menon and she falls in love with him. No doubt the character falls in love because he is Sidharth. At last he went to Brazil by chance and lives there with cancer again without any symptoms"

Sathyam Cinemas could be more brief in listening to stories and the high capital can be invested in some more good movies. The movie can be rated only based upon the technical aspects and visuals.


180, The high technical crew works so hard for more than 180 days with week story and screenplay.

180

3/10 

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