Let’s talk about Hera Pheri Trilogies, Priyadarshan and Plagiarism.
Phir Hera Pheri:
Plot Outline: Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash.
Does it ring any bell? It’s the plot of the movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Incidently, this is almost the plot of Phir Hera Pheri as well. 70% of the movie was copied. The pity that it didn’t live up to the standards of Lock stock.. The movie starts of as one movie and soon after the interval it becomes another movie (a copy of lock stock). This means that the movie is 2hrs 45mins long!!
I recently saw this movie and couldn’t help thinking about the original classic movie by Guy Ritchie. Even though the movie was good in parts and comedy scenes actually make you laugh, there are so many good comedy movie (even in Hindi) that you can watch in lieu of this flick.
There are so many actors, but the movie revolves around Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal and to some extent Rajpal Yadav. The music by Himesh Reshammiya was bad. At one song he copied, the “Western music” which featured in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”.
Some say that the ending/climax was rip off from 1928 Charlie Chaplin movie: The Circus. I have not seen The Circus, but even if it’s copied, it’s kinda Ok. But the Gorilla scenes made me think: “What the fuck!”
Incase you’re yet to check out Phir Hera Pheri, then do yourself a favour and watch Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Phir Hera Pheri will suck in front of Lock, stock..
Hera Pheri:
I dint even bother to see the movie fully. It’s a “remake” of the Malayalam movie directed by Fazil Siddique Lal and the name of the movie is Ramoji Rao Speaking. Thanks to Riyaz for pointing out my mistake. Fazil directed the tamil remake: Arangetra Velai.The movie was so good and the Hindi remake sucked in front of it.
The music was also bad. No cookies for guessing who the Music director is! Anu Malik!! Compared to the Tamil remake, Illaiyaraja give his one of his best songs and music was top notch.
Hera Pheri Ek Aur Baar:
Hera Pheri Ek Aur Baar or International Hera Pheri is supposed to be the title for the next installment in the Hera Pheri. Ohh god! I don’t like crap comedies like this. Airplane and Dumb and Dumber were also in the same league. Although many would like these kinda of comedies, I’ll be least impressed.
I wonder which movie they’re going to remake (read: copy). Maybe Snatch. Snatch. was written and directed by Guy Ritchie (Madonna’s Husband) who also Directed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The movie was kind of be a sequel to Lock, Stock.. It has the same cast from Lock, Stock.. and an addition Brad Pitt. I guess they’ll rip this flick and make the third Hera Pheri movie out of this!
Priyadarshan is a Plagiarist
I actually don’t like Priyadarshan, who made his living by remaking popular Malayalam movies in Hindi and Tamil. The movie (Hera Pheri) was copied frame by frame from Arangetra Velai. You can put the subtitle from Arangetra Velai to Hera Pheri. It would sync perfectly! I was kinda amused to know when Priyadarshan was angry when Neeraj Vora is making a sequel to *his original movie* which will loose it’s sheen! So he released Chup Chup Ke the same date as Phir Hera Pheri, which was a disaster at the Box Office and for your information it’s a remake of a Malayalam movie: Punjabi House!
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humm, totally agree with your comments on Priyadarshan.
but little think about people(read mass)who dont know or reach to such cinema they have to watch “copy cat” movies to laugh.
wht sucks, we have to depend such crap remake & not able to c the original for which many including me are big fans.
Arangetra Velai was a masterpiece. It made you laugh, had good songs and a good cast. Moreover the most important factor which made me like Arangetra Velai was it’s plot. It’s perfect and almost flawless.
Btw, you should see Snatch. and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. This Hera Pheri will suck in front of it.
Well, the upside to the whole plagarism thing is that Bollywood will never come after us when we leech movies from various torrent sites and forums. They have to clean up their own act first and then start preaching about the horrors of piracy. That will happen when Sachin Tendulkar’s grandchildren retire from international cricket.
Ashwin, great blog mate. You continue to rock! Who the hell is Ashwin ? Well, he is an ace blogger!
Harsha
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Thanks for visiting and taking time to comment.
Well, Harsha, I think that’s probably the best compliment that I have received so far.
Nowadays all the movies seems to be copied by some other even the music is not spared . people seem to be running out of ideas .
BTW Thanks for linking me .
You got somethings wrong there Ashwin.
The Original is a Malayalam Movie Ramoji Rao Speaking directed by Siddique Lal. Ramoji Rao is the name of the villain and the name comes from the famous dialog of the movie “Ramoji Rao Speaking”. Fazil remaked it into tamil as Arangetra Velai. In fact this was his first tamil film who’s original is not directed by him.
Priyadarshan is a copycat Artist in Hindi. I’ll name a few films.
Remake(Language) - Original(Language) - Director
Gardish(Hindi) - Bharatham(Mal) - Sibi Malayil
Virasat(Hindi) - Thevar Makan(Tam) - Bharathan
Muskurahat(Hindi) - Kilukkam(Mal) - Priyadarshan
Saat Rang Ke Sapne(Hindi) - Thenmavin Kombathu(Mal) - Priyadarshan
Doli Saja Ke Rakhna(Hindi) - Aniyathipravu(Mal) - Fazil
Hera Pheri(Hindi) - Ramoji Rao Speaking(Mal) - Siddique Lal
Ye Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar(Hindi) - Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam(Mal) - Priyadarshan
Lesa Lesa(Tam) - Summer in Bethlahem(Mal) - Sibi Malayil and Cheppu(Mal) - Priyadarshan
Hungama -
Hulchul(Hindi) - Godfather(Mal) - Siddique Lal
Vettam(Mal) - Pyar tho Hona Hi Tha(Hindi) - Aneez Basmee
Garam Masala(Hindi) - Boeing Boeing(Mal) - Priyadarshan
Kyon Ki(Hindi) - Thalavattam(Mal) - Priyadarshan
Chup Chup Ke(Hindi) - Punjabi House(Mal) - Rafi Meccartin
And Even almosr all the Malayalam Movies directed by priyadarshan are copied from a lot of hollywood movies like Thalavattam(Kyon Ki) is from One flew over the cuckoos nest.
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lol.. I knew abt One flew over the cuckoos nest and a few other movies, but you got his whole history.
I thought Arangetra Velai was directed by Fazil in Mal. as well. Thanks for pointing out that and the name of the Mal. movie.
These Days Plagarism is on the max, Most of the movies are riped from others.
Hindi from Malayalam
and vice versa
I wonder have they do so ?? Don’t they want to be original ??
Sanmanassullavarkku samadhanam ws directd by Sathyan anthikkadu nd nt by priyadarsan..
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