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JAB TAK HAI JAAN and its inspired poster which actually follows the trend started by James Bond's GOLDFINGER (1964). |
The morning newspaper had this front page news in its entertainment supplement saying ‘Shahrukh Khan’s new film poster is all inspired’. The news was not surprising to me as I had seen the poster few days back and very well knew that it was inspired. But honestly the case here is not of just copying the source mentioned in the news and all the other net-posts, but its actually the trend of following a particular style or genre initiated by the James Bond Series in the mid sixties. And I really wish both the print and net media had brought the right picture in front of their readers rather than just serving some half baked news in the name of sensationalism.
In Bollywood this was adapted or copied in Ramesh Sippy’s SHAAN (1980) in the film’s opening titles only (as in the picture above) which had the song “Doston Se Pyar Kiya” sung by Usha Utthap being played in the background. The sequence had a girl wearing a body hugging white costume on which the films different actions scenes were projected which was a first in Hindi Cinema at that time.
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23 Sep 2012 /
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Chris
Here is an article which exposes Hollywood\'s \'original\' Posters (there are 5 pages)
http://www.mikeymo.nl/index.php/movies/articles/89-the-most-shameless-poster-ripoffs-ever the various die hard ripoffs from America (there are 32(!) pages) http://www.mikeymo.nl/index.php/movies/articles/187-the-legacy-of-die-hard
Bobby Sing
Thanks a lot Chris for these links and they gave me something really interesting to read and know.
Chris
I don\'t know where to post this but I want to ask a question
are these tunes similar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BqjOx6mPcU from Yudh 1985 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRHetRTOD1Q this was in 1987 I find the main tune \'danke pe chot padi hai\' similar to \'It\'s a sin\'. I know the riff/prelude is copied from \'yazoo\' in teh hindi song, but the main tune might be reverse inspiration. weren\'t pet shop boys inspired by Kalyanji Anandji in \'Apradh\' (Aye naujawan) and the Don song (yeh mera dil)?
Bobby Sing
Hi Chris,
Bobby Sing
Hi Chris,
Chris
This is the English song which samples 2 songs of Kalyanji Anandji.
Bobby Sing
Yeas Chris, it surely uses the samples from their songs....I suggest you do send a mail about his to Karthik at www.itwofs.com and do let me know the info he shares with you further.
Bobby Sing
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