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Copy times X = Research
“I realise that if you copy from a film, it is a copy. If you copy from four or five movies, that’s research” that’s Apoorva Lakhia quoted in a recent interview. If you are going Lakhia who? Memory jog: director of Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost, Ek Ajnabee and Shootout At Lokhandwala. Though seeing the personal side of the director in Liz Mermin’s documentary Shot in Bombay, one tends to have a soft corner for him seeing the troubles he went through while making Shootout at Lokhandwala, yet… there are statements like these that make purists and hardcore fanatics to almost get up and smack their skulls with the nearest available heavy object. Lakhia’s Mission Istanbul is ready for release and he gives his take on the film, world, global terrorism and ofcourse the concept of research. (tip off: Om)
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“media killed the film [Ek Ajnabi] by calling it copy of a Hollywood film” - yeah, so the audience should actually watch the scene-by-scene copied sub-standard Hindi movie, and why, because they cannot understand English or even subtitles of the original, right Mr Lakhia!!?
lol I think he was being sarcastic?
There’s another interview according to which Lakhia got the moral rights to remake ‘Man on Fire’ (over another Bollywood directors) since he was the one who watched the original film first in Singapore, on the day of its global release.
Trust me, he actually said that in one of his interviews.
(Look, I am not even putting a smiley in the end. It’s a fact.)
I agree with Lakhia about the research bit.