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Director Vikram Bhatt's career is largely enthused with Hollywood rip-offs and after countless failures, this release simply adds to the list. It's a classical example where a filmmaker's amateurish attempt of rehashing couple of Hollywood flicks has gone berserk. 'Speed' is a shameful imitation from Hollywood's fast paced action packed thriller 'Cellular' in its first half, while its plot and climax in the second half get its inspiration from another Hollywood hit 'Nick of Time' (which was earlier, rehashed with mediocre results in Shahrukh Khan's 'Badshah').

Firstly, why the film was titled "Speed" when there is no relevance of word "speed" either with its plot, theme or characters? After illogically envisaged 'Red', it's another flick from Vikram Bhatt which has English title to lure urban viewers but shows no relevance with the subject or concept of the film.

15 submitters noted this to be a BollyCat of Anger Management, 6 said it copied Meet the Parents, while another 7 suggested that it ripped off both of those. Based on these numbers, we can safely conclude that the movie is a mish-mosh of the two originals. Additionally one person suggested that the father of the bride character in MSK was based on Steve Martin's role in Father of the Bride. Being a David Dhavan movie and the fact that the Steve Martin character and Robert De Niro's Jack in Meet the Parents shared similarities of their own, we don't really doubt that.

Anyway, the protagonist is our BollyCat definitely has an "anger" problem. But we guess what really makes this a BollyCat is the final scene where the guy proposes to his girlfriend at a baseball cricket game. But according to our submitters, there's plenty of stuff in between directly lifted from Anger Management. Remember the scene where Ben Stiller breaks the urn at the dinner table? Well the same scene is in MSK.

We'll summarize this by quoting one of our submitters, "Take the story from 'Anger Management', add a few comedy scenes from 'Meet the parents', include a few beautiful and well-shot songs and what to you have? 'Mujhse Shaadi Karoge'."

Rakhi Sawant isn't all that, except of course for that huge doctor-given rack of hers. How do we know? She admitted to having implants on the popular Bollywood talk show, Koffee with Karan. And just to remove any doubts are to what little she said on that show, in an interview with an Indian tabloid she added, “I was 32 back then, now I am 36. God never endowed me, so a doctor helped.” Good for you girl. Her interview and some hot shots after the break.

"Jian Gui" or "The Eye" came out in 2002, and then in 2005 came out "Naina" or... you guessed it... "The Eye". The story is about a woman who receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world. Here's what one of our submitters, Nitin Kumar Gupta, had to say about this BollyCat:

"Frame by frame, scene by scene, dialog by dialog copy. Even the characters have been made up to look as close to the original movie characters as possible. Small props like staplers haven't been spared and even the smallest jokes have been copied. The movie looks like someone did a Hindi dubbing of the original and replaced the faces of the actors using a computer. They have shamelessly given themselves credit for plot, screenplay, dialogues, art design, music etc when everything has been lifted from the original Hong Kong movie. A disgrace to Indian movie makers and cinema."

Continue reading Naina...

NEW DELHI (IANS): Lives of the women of the street have been recounted in myriad Hindi films but it is a subject that the dream merchants never seem to get weary of. Joining the long list of films based on sex-workers will be 'Laaga Chunari Mein Daag' that is slated for Friday release.

The film, being produced by Bollywood's biggest dream merchants Yash Raj Films, hopes to push the envelope further by portraying the life of a small town girl who willingly chooses sex trade as a career.

This movie was submitted a cool 27 times before our submission form crapped out. So yeah, can 27 people be all wrong?

We are not sure why people got so upset as to report this BollyCat en-masse, our unscientific guess is that they are all fans of Amitabh Bacchan and simply disappointed that he would choose to take part in such a low class adventure. Well, whatever. The stories are story is as follows:

A burnt-out alcoholic ex-super-macho secret-agent is hired to protect the family of a wealthy businessman. He dislikes the job but has no other choices. Soon he befriends the little girl he is meant to protect and lo' and behold the bad guys kidnap her. Now our protagonists only choice is to right his wrongs and bring the girl back to safety. Expect some usual masala twists and turns in the Bollywood version.

Yes this video is old, but it still makes us giggle inside a little, and feel like we are in a Subash Ghai movie running in green fields somewhere in West Punjab, everytime we watch it. So here it is for your enjoyment... (That's Winston Spear btw, performing during a segment on the show "Comedy Inc.")