Mumbai: South Indian cinema has always been an inspiration for Bollywood after Hollywood. Earlier, In a bid to minimize creative labor, Bollywood directors would often improvise the script of other movies to produce a film, so that there are no charges of plagiarism.
However, modern day directors are so gallant they believe in the blatant copy paste work. We will shed light on five movies that are almost translated as it is in Hindi from the south Indian Languages.
Rowdy Rathore
In this 2012 movie, Akshay Kumar played double role with Sonakshi Sinha. The movie was based on a kingpin of the village. It was a remake of Telugu movie "Vikramarkudu" in which Ravi Teja, Anushka Shetty and Vineet Kumar played lead roles. It was released in 2006.
Holiday: A Soldier is never off duty
Another movie in which Akshay and Sonakshi paired up. In it, "Khiladi Kumar" played the role of an army man who was on leave. The movie was a remake of Vijay and Kajal Aggarwal starrer Tamil movie "Thuppakki". It was released in 2012, two years before the release of Hindi version.
Bhool Bhulaiya
It seems Akshay Kumar has a connection with every movie inspired from South. This popular horror- comedy, directed by Priyadarshan, too is inspired from a Tamil movie "Chandramukhi". That Rajnikanth and Nayanthara starrer movie was released in 2005, While "Bhool Bhulaiyaa" was released two years later.
Drishyam
The Ajay Devgn, Taboo and Shreya Saran thriller “Drishyam” was not originally released in one, but all four South Indian languages ie. Tamil, Telugu, Malyalam and Kannada, far earlier than Hindi version.
Raabta
Sushant Singh Rajput and Kriti Sanon starrer “Raabta”, which faltered at box office recently, was inspired from the Rajamouli's magnum opus “Magadheera”. "Raabta" makers won the case of plagarism against "Magadheera" but inclusion of incarnation, warriors and royal sets of palaces are enough hint for the audience from where the film has found its "inspiration".