Abbas-Mastan: The Bollywood Masters Of Rip-Offs

As Abbas-Mastan launch the trailer of their upcoming ‘Players’ as ’Official‘ remake of ’Italian Job’, here is List of ‘Unofficial” Rip-Offs of the movies by the Director Duo. It’s pity that most of the movies have been nominated for ‘Original Story’.

At least this time they bought the Rights of the film but their 12 previous attempts have were never mentioned that they were inspired or lifted. Although the duo wear the ‘white’ but had been doing the job of lifting. Lets looks into the films which were copied -ripped or raped, by the duo at will.

                     Khel Khel Mein [1975]                                                          Khiladi [1992]

1. First Movie of Khiladi Series was ‘Inspired’ by our own Bollywood Flick. First success for Akshay Kumar!!!




            A Kiss Before Dying [1991]                                                        Baazigar [1993]
 
2. The movie that made Shahrukh the Star he is today was a Copy’. This time the Director Duo ventured Hollywood for Inspiration.But Hollywood never had ‘Kaali Kaali Aakhien’ to boast off !!! Superb Music and SRK won his first Fimfare Award. Bollywood has no reason to Complain.




      Sleeping With The Enemy [1991]                                                     Daraar [1996]
 
3. This one got Bollywood Frenzy. Can’t blame Abbas-Mastan alone. There were 3 filmmakers making Rip-Offs of ‘Sleeping With The Enemy’. And at the same Time. Only Partho Gosh got it right with ‘Agni Sakshi’ . Both ‘Yarana’ and ‘Daraar’ bombed!!! But Arbaaz Khan got Filmfare Award for Best Villain.




                 Nick Of Time [1995]                                                              Baadshah [1999]
   
4. This is Classic. It was copy of not one but three films. Central plot was from ‘Nick Of Time’ and Action Sequence were from Jackie Chan’s ‘Mr. Nice Guy’ & ‘Rush Hour’. UnofficiallyCopied but Film was Official Failure at Box Office !!!




                     Pretty Woman [1990]                                                 Chori Chori Chupke Chupke [2001]
   
5. Now Abbas-Mastan want to do something in Romance Genre . But as usual they dont have anything original in mind. So what they should do. Simple !!!

Take ‘Pretty Woman’ as ‘Doosri Dulhan’ to ’Hum Aap ke Hain Kaun’ type setup for ‘Shaadi’ and ‘Goad Bharai’ . And here we are with ‘Chori Chori Chupke Chupke’.The film didn’t set Box Office on fire but it did land Bharat Shah in Jail for underworld connection.



                   Consenting Adults [1992]                                                   Ajnabee[2001]
 
6. Another Rip-Off. And the film’s credits show ‘Neeraj Vora’ for ‘Story’.But it doesnt matter as the Film was a success and Ashkay Kumar wins his first Fimfare Award for Negative Role.




            A Perfect Murder [1998]                                                      Humraaz [2002]

7. Another Copy. Another Musical Superhit. And we complain why they copy!!! Akshay Khanna gets many nominations for Best Villain. Seems Villains from Abbas-Mastan movies eventually win !!




             Christine [1983]                                                          Tarzan: The Wonder Car [2004]

8. They even managed to launch a Car for this movie. But the Car along with the movie met with a Well Deserved box office disaster.





                 Disclosure [1994]                                                                  Aitraaz [2004]

 9. Another Musical Hit. This time Priyanka Chopra wins Filmfare Award in Negative Roles. Demi Moore didn’t win any for her much bolder ‘Original’ version. Another reason to make ‘Copies’ !!!



                 Once Upon A Crime [1992]                                           36 China Town [2006]

10. Now how long you can keep copying others Ideas and sell it to different Audience. Another shameless Rip-Off.




                    dot the i [2003]                                                                 Naqaab [2007]

 11. It was frame by frame copy of ‘dot the i’. Not sure why they wanted to copy this one as the original wasn’t a commercial or critical success. The Copied version bombed too.

                  Goodbye Lover [1998]                                                          Race [2008]

12. Biggest Hit of Abbas-Mastan. For that not only did they copy the Script from Hollywood’s ‘Goodbye Lover’ but they copied music from Korea for ‘Pehli Nazar Mein…’ and ‘Zara Zara Touch Me’.