Hollywood Ripoffs better than the Original!
Cracked.com has come up with a list of Hollywood Ripoffs (I repeat ripoffs) that are better than the Originals… which is what you new age Bollywood Bloggers term as: It is so bad that it’s REAL GOOD.
While going through the list, I was stopped in my tracks by No# 8 which was titled…
The Indian Superman – Dariya Dil (released 1988)
Apparently Govinda-jee’s film is so famous that it even had American bloggers enchanted and thrilled for providing them with humor so desperately needed by us bloggers sitting behind our dull and boring laptops.
Cracked wastes no time and dives into the guts of Dariya Dil
The American Original:
In his 1978 Film, Superman apprehends those who commit crimes. The love of Lois Lane helps the superpowered Kryptonian maintain his humanity.The Foreign Rip-Off:
In this Bollywood extravaganza, Superman and Indian Lois Lane (a.k.a. Indian Spiderwoman) use the power of dance to commit crimes against humanity.Why It’s Better:
To be fair, Dariya Dil isn’t an Indian Superman movie at all (the only plot synopsis we could find online said it was a romantic comedy about tax evasion or something). But nonetheless, we dig its freaky take on the Superman mythos.The problem with the American Superman is he’s basically a god trapped in the mind of a crossing guard. His M.O. for crime prevention is hovering above the ground, arms crossed with an exasperated frown on his face. Come on! We’re talking about Superman here, continents shift when he yawns and oceans boil when he farts in the tub. But it’s wasted on a guy who has the personality of a mannequin.
Why is this happening?
The Indian Superman has no such hang-ups. He’ll dance like no one’s watching. He’ll canoodle with his girl at 5,000 feet. And–at the 2:33 mark–he’ll use his superbreath to blow a criminal at the force of escape velocity into the vacuum of space, where the perp will orbit the Earth as a frozen corpse for decades. In short, Indian Superman just does not give a fuck.
Apparently a worthy candidate for The Torture Series, Cracked.com seems to have cracked the success of many films in Bollywood Cinema.
Perhaps it is time for any of you dear New Age Bloggers to start a 21st Century Series on something like RIPe off List or something… meanwhile I’m going to drop everything and enjoy Superman and Spiderwomen dancing to a hindi tune on YouTube… it is such a beautiful day!
You meanwhile, check out this link for the rest of the movies in the list. Apparently Govinda-jee has some touchy toughy competition .
Tags: Humor, Satire, Standup, World Cinema
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
God Help me but I’ve seen 5 films on that list.
ha ha ha mast…
Looks like a sibling of the Torture Series ones
oz, do you want the director of dariya dil to blog on PFC? he could be a guest on the torture series. he’s made many more such “so bad they’re good” films.
the way Govinda dances in the video at 1.01 made me crack up….imagine Superman doing this step….whenever the baddies come….trust me they wouldn’t want to come near him….
This was fun! Thanks for sharing…
Haha- amazing!
I was hailed as a hero for introducing the guys at college to the youtube link for this….i could fill up an entire page of so bad its good youtube links
haha. friggin funny. long live oz bhai!
Hey check out this for the REAL Indian Superman: http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/s/superman-indian.html
I had seen Dariyadil in the first week of its release. After Kimi Katkar’s Tarzan, we used to watch every movie of hers expecting some skin show. :D
This song rules like nothing else.
Mai teraaaaa Superman…Tu meri lady
Ho gaya hai humko pyaar already.