Comments on: Sanjay Gupta – CopyBoy

By: BNB

BNB — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:21:51 +0000

I don’t believe Kamal’s claims about this movie. I loved this movie and was in Madurai at that time – It was a hit, though not a humongous one. You need to take Kamal’s statements with a karandi full of salt – they are often manipulative and aimed at a very gullible audience.

By: vijay

vijay — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:30:00 +0000

“Yeah, smartness matters, from where you lift. Chances of people watching German flicks are pretty slim than a movie that figures in most of the “Best of Hollywood” list.”

Matters to whom? You, probably. Ghajni was a blockbuster hit. So apparently it doesnt matter to our audiences. Thats the point. The average fan for these films in Madras wouldnt have even heard about Memento much less care about what films are there in top 250. Magalir mattum,Avvai shanmughi etc. were even more balatant lifts and both of them were BO successes. So our audiences dont care as long as the film is well adapted for local consumption. And so Murugadoss doesnt have to worry about where he lifts from. If he is worried about critical acclaim then he shouldnt lift at all.

By: Krithika

Krithika — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:44:49 +0000

I was refering to the scene in Ghajini when Asin dies. It’s a lift from the scene in Gladiator when Maximus’ wife and children are murdered. Same. Ditto. Yeah, smartness matters, from where you lift. Chances of people watching German flicks are pretty slim than a movie that figures in most of the “Best of Hollywood” list. (I’m NOT a fan of Selvaraghavan.In case you’re wondering)

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By: Kumar

Kumar — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:30:55 +0000

In an interview, On being asked ” why dont you ever make original movies ?”.. Sanjay Gupta replied with pride “Thats because i am a direcor not a screenplay writer ” !! ………….huh !!!

By: vijay

vijay — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:22:20 +0000

“Which is more ridiculous/stupid – lifting from “Klassenfhart” or from more popular “Usual Suspects” or for that matter “Gladiator”?”

so you are more worried about the “smartness” of the lifts or about the director getting caught than about the lifts themselves?

BTW, For an average filmgoer in TN, Usual suspects might be as alien as an European film. Murugadoss laughed all the way to the bank with Ghajini. So lifting parts of Memento wouldnt sound “stupid” to him, would it? Gladiator is a different story. I dont think anyone will remake that in Tamil

By: subbu

subbu — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:22:06 +0000

@ganesh

I know critics tend to go overboard but u just watch both movies and see how Sanjay Gupta has left no stone uncovered.It is not some Independent movie maker’s story that helifted but the hugely popular OldBoy which was raved by critics at Cannes and is hugely popular all over the world.No one can copy better than him.

By: Krithika

Krithika — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:40:38 +0000

It is not OK to lift from German films. Did I say it was OK? I’m not a supporter of lifting from original and Anumalik’s niece. Which is more ridiculous/stupid – lifting from “Klassenfhart” or from more popular “Usual Suspects” or for that matter “Gladiator”?

By: Ganesh

Ganesh — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:04:02 +0000

I am not very sure why are you guys bothered about films being lifted. I am also pretty sure that the idea of blogs was also “lifted” and everyone is writing one.There are lot of Hollywood films too that are lifted from all over the world.I also do not agree with Raja Sen’s view that if you credit the guy who you are copying you can remake a film, which means that there is no originality.

I think that such columns should be just banned. The media has its own yardstick for measuring foreign films and a totally different yardstick for measuring Indian films.

By: subbu

subbu — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:54:54 +0000

I have seen OldBoy and this is nothing new from Sanjay Gupta.He did it with Kaante a copy of Reservoir Dogs and Musafir a copy of possibly Oliver Stone’s worst movie ever,Wrong Turn.I still dont believe how one can copy OldBoy in the Indian Perspective.The Narrative and Casting simply cant match the one sin the Korean Flick.But it is one of the movies where i was amazed and Entertained at the sametime,simply glued fro 3 hours so and on top of it I was sick when i was watching it.I had already posted comments on some previous post here.

@Vijay

Pudhupettai has not even released and I am sure Selvaraghavan wont copy a movie frame to frame,ppl say Nayakan is a copy of Godfather but If u have seen both movies carefully u can see the trivial lifting of a few scenes than any concept as such.