Fight Club: I give up
I give up. I FUCKING GIVE IT UP. THERE IS NO FUCKING HOPE FOR BOLLYWOOD. Just when you are given a high by the rediff.com review on Vishal Bhardwaj’s latest “The Blue Umbrellaâ€, the very next instant you are slapped with this preview of
“Fight Club†a Sohail Khan Production [first tipped by Akhil here in the comments section]
The preview and the trailers are here on indiafm.com.
Now if it doesn’t ring a bell, ghanta, tring tring, bhopoo or any other thing in your sweet world, please take a look at the original Brad Pitt/Edward Norton Fight Club.
I would like to call upon all pharmaceutical companies to respectfully provide a daily dose of vitamins and minerals to all Bollywood movie makers. How then could you explain their complete lack of energy which looks as a primal cause for them to not only copy a movie concept but worse… to keep the same title as of the original?
And the previews over the web on all entertainment websites seem to be paid advertisements…
Here’s Gaurav Malini of IndiaFm.com previewing Fight Club (the Desi Version) –
- Move aside all the mushy romance flicks. It’s time for some ‘hard-hitting’ action in Bollywood. In these times of feel-good films and light-hearted comedies, the punch of a full-fledged action flick was missing for quite some time….
Time for some hard-hitting action in Bollywood?
What the fuck did we see in Sholay, Satya, Ghulami, Border, and EVEN FUCKING LOC…IF THAT IS NOT ACTION THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS ACTION? AND WHAT THE FUCK IS LEFT FOR YOU TO SHOW US? I’m pretty sure you are not coming up with unique original concepts such as the “Matrix†are you?
the punch of a full-fledged action flick was missing for quite some time….
Punch? Full-Fledged? Missing? WHO THE FUCK IS WRITING THIS STUFF?
The preview continues…
- ‘Everyone has their issues … but it can be sorted out’….’Welcome to Fight Club’….With such ruthless lines, the introductory teaser of Fight Club opens interestingly on a hardhearted note.
With such “RUTHLESS†lines…
oz’s psycho-analysis of Gaurav Malini who oz has never seen, met or heard of.
Gaurav Malini: Age 4 years
Related to: Owner of IndiaFm.com, who has an equal opportunity employment program which starts and ends with the owner’s family and friends.
Reasons for writing preview: Promise of two ice-creams, 4 candies, and 3 bags of popcorn from Uncle Sohail-jee.
The preview further adds…
- … Some well-choreographed action sequences follow on a rocking background score composed by the now popular composer Pritam…
Gaurav-jee, what different trailer did you see that we haven’t… please do put the link to the trailer that you saw on the website. The action sequences that we saw in the trailer put up at IndiaFm.com look like cut and print version of an average 1970s movie. And please do rent a copy of the original “Fight Club†to check out the action sequences. Yes, it’s true Gaurav-jee, there is another ‘Fight Club’ besides Sohail-uncle’s Fight Club. I’m extremely sorry that you did not hear of it before this post. Uncle Sohail-jee may have been lying to you all this time.
And in the end…
- What follows is one on one between brawny bodies… As the movie title ‘Fight Club’ flashes it reads a tagline as well stating ‘Members Only’. Some more masculine faces flash onscreen that include Suniel Shetty, Ashmit Patel, Rahul Dev and Yash Tonk…Despite not superstars, the multi-starrer ‘Fight Club’, in a unique way, uses the youth brigade of Bollywood to its advantage.
What follows is one on one between brawny bodies….Masculine faces flash onscreen?
Good thing. Just the other day I was complaining that my living room turns into a strip club every time I switch on the telly. A strip club with Female Strippers. With your comments above, TV watching men should be afraid…very afraid, for this strip club is soon gonna be turning into a co-ed…complete with male strippers. Sharmajee’s time is up. It’s now Mrs. Sharma’s turn to enjoy the living room strip shows.
Despite not superstars, the multi-starrer ‘Fight Club’, in a unique way,…
Unique way? What the fuck is unique about a movie that has not only copied the concept but also the title of the original. UNIQUE WAY MY ASS!
No mention is made by you Gaurav-jee that the “Soap†symbol of the original Fight Club has now been changed to a “Car License Plate†symbol in the copy. But then you didn’t know of an “original Fight Club†courtesy Uncle Sohail-jee.
DO ANY OF THESE PREVIEW WRITERS EVEN WATCH ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF BOLLYWOOD? IS THIS HOW CINEMA REPORTING IS FUCKING GONNA BE FROM NOW ON…IS IT? NO NO NO. THERE IS NO FUCKING HOPE FOR ORIGINALITY AND CREATIVITY IN BOLLYWOOD AND NOW IN ITS REPORTING. I GIVE UP…I FUCKING GIVE UP.
December 8th, 2005 at 2:46 pm
oz,
Some Indian Filmmakers have a simple VB code for Film-Making.
The code is
If (you wanna make movie) then
Go Watch a Hollywood flick
If (you like flick) then
rename movie
else
don’t rename
end if
Go (Fultu Copy Movie)
End if
The thing is you just need one producer to get royally sued for it. Bas, once they katofy “Court ke Chakkar”, then that subah ka bhula will return in evening and will probably not be called bhula anymore.
December 9th, 2005 at 12:45 am
This “FC” looks much like the original. Even the name is same. Only here instead of Edward Norton imagining himself as Brad Pitt, we have 4 people imagining themselves as somebody else.
Oops I told the story.
Seen “Choclate”. Saala Frame by frame copy of “The Usual Suspect”. Sirf Climax ki vaat laga di.
Punds
December 9th, 2005 at 8:02 am
- anon, Ha! Good code. But the hell change the names of actors, directors etc. So Sanjay Gupta could be Park Chan-wook (of the original) or the director of the desi Fight Club could call himself David Fincher (of the original)…No I don’t think court ka chakkers is a deterent, considering the time it takes. It’s a pity, the courts are used to kick and stop movies like Black Friday and Paanch which are creative original and wanna speak up the truth. But when it comes to copying, well…
December 9th, 2005 at 8:04 am
-Punds, perhaps Chocolate would have been much better if it did not have the climax. And the Sunil Shetty dancing over the beams of red light in the truck is a straigh lift off from Ocean’s 12
January 7th, 2006 at 10:47 am
hey u guys i think the reason y bollywood ripz off the holly films is so that at least the eastern people, hindi speaking people n the rest of the people who havnt wachd the holly version can experiance it with their own language and favourite bolly stars like fight club.. i havnt wachd the holly version but when the bolly one comes out im definatly going to watch it ( because of dino morea)LOL..i think its good that they do that.
January 25th, 2006 at 11:45 am
[...] Before your mind or body attempts to fall off the chair you are sitting on, please note that THE MAN planning revenge on Hollywood is non other than Sohail Khan. Yes, Sohail-jee is on a fast track to overcome Mr. Mahesh Bhatt-jee as the copier machine of Bollywood (last copy Fight Club). News is that Xerox would like to patent Sohail-jee’s technology which photocopies not itsy bitsy tiny winy documents, but the whole fucking movie itself. Rumors are that Sohail-jee has named his patented technology as “Ctrl C Ctrl Vâ€. To understand what this name means, I would advise the dear reader to look down on his/her keyboard. [...]