Movies with Similar Plots!

When we saw these movies, first thing came into our sense was that we had seen these story/plot earlier also. Today’s blog will highlight those movies which stories are inspired from some previous released movies. To be precise this list does not contain any kind of official or unofficial remake from any other industry but rather focus over influenced movies of its predecessor. Also here those plot twists are excluded which we could see in almost every bollywood movies, because for that there will be another list:

1.) Love Aaj Kal(2009) / Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013): How could these two movies have any kind of similarity? Love Aaj Kal was romantic Comedy-drama film directed by Imtiaz Ali whereas Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani was coming-of- age¹ romantic comedy film directed by Ayan Mukherjee. Only similarity we can see here is presence of Deepika Padukone. But see it this way, in both these movies actors love were overshadowed by their ambitions, which was sensed by their partner (in both case Deepika Padukone)so rather than express her feelings to them, she let them (Saif Ali khan/ Ranbir Kapoor) pursue their dreams. But as said ‘Ishq aur Mushq chupaye nahin chupta’, thus at the end of both movies our protagonist2 realizes their mistake and goes back to rectify their mistakes by get what they had lost( Deepika Padukone).

2.  Parwana(1971)/Darr(1993): In both these movies we got chance to see cold bloody psycho murderer in Amitabh Bacchan(Parwana) and in Shahrukh Khan(Darr). Similarity, in both these movies, our antiheroes are obsessed by  movie’s actresses (Yogeeta Bali/ Juhi Chawla) and do anything to get her even if they have to killed someone. Now differences, both these movies protagonists were different in character. In Darr, Sunny Deol will do anything to save her love from her psycho lover whereas in Parwana, Naveen Nischol(love interest of Yogita Bali) was framed for her uncle’s( Om Prakash) murder by Amitabh Bacchan and in the end he was not killed by actor’s hand as happened in Darr but he committed suicide once he realized his mistake and thus confessed his feelings to his love. Darr was second movie in which Shahrukh Khan seen in negative avatar (earlier was Baazigar in 1993) whereas Parwana was Amitabh’s first movie where audience had seen his negative obsessed murderer look, this movie was not successful, however its brilliant murder scene were Amitabh murder Om Prakash and framed Navin Nischol for his misdeed was copied in Sriram Raghavan’s neo-noir3 thriller film Johny Gaddar(2007).

3.) Jab Jab Phool Khile(1965)/ Raja Hindustani(1996): Well both these movies are iconic in its own way. Jab Jab Phool Khile, starring Shashi Kapoor and Nanda was become so popular in Algeria that it screened every two days for couple of years and made Shashi Kapoor household name in North African countries  whereas Raja Hindustani lead Karishma Kapoor won her first film fare award for best actress and made her superstar of bollywood. But yes, I'am talking about movie’s plot, so both these movies based upon a rich girl Rita (Nanda)/ Aarti (Karishma Kapoor) who wanted to go to a hill station, and there she met her guide Raja boatman (Shashi Kapoor)/Raja cabdriver aka Raja Hindustani (Aamir Khan) and eventually they both fall in love and when they both want to marry each other, entered actresses rich father (Kamal Kapoor/Suresh Oberoi) who were against their marriages. Except few changes, both these movies plots were so similar that when you searched both these movies in IMDB you will get similar synopsis.

4.) Bawarchi(1972)/Hero No.1(1997): Both these movies were super hit. Rather than their different directors and genres, David Dhawan’s Hero No.1 had influence of Hrishekesh Mukherjee’s Classic Bawarchi. Bawarchi’s plot was however inspired from a Bengali movie Galpa Holeo Satyi(1966) but we will not go into that. Also it’s been remade in several other languages, but here it’s plot been adopted to give a flow to Dhawan’s Hero No.1. So in Bawarchi, a cook named Raghu (Rajesh Khanna) entered in the life of Sharma Family whose disreputation of ill treatment of their servants spread to such an extent that no one want to work there. However Raghu took this challenge and not only became everyone’s favourite but also changed family’s nature. Now in Hero No.1,Rajesh Malhotra(Govinda) and Meena (Karishma Kapoor) fall in love in Europe but due to certain consequences Meena’s Grandfather Dinanath(Paresh Rawal) not accept their marriage, so to win their heart and Meena’s hand wealthy Rajesh entered in Meena’s home in disguise of cook Raju. Both these movies have lots of similar scenes once Govinda turned himself from wealthy Rajesh to cook Raju.

5.) Dhoom3 (2013)/Gunday(2014): What? How could these two movies have any kind of similarity except for its production house (Yash Raj Films). Dhoom-3 was story of thief whereas Gunday was story of Coal mafia set in the backdrop of Bangladesh partition, then how? So,just relax and see, in Dhoom 3 Aamir Khan are twins, in Gunday Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor are not less than sibling. In Dhoom-3 their father Jackie Shroff committed suicide, in Gunday their father like character Lateef (Pankaj Tripathi) got killed while saving them, eventually both our movies antiheroes’4 childhood become hell. However they all stand themselves and became kingpin in crime field. Aamir Khans(he was twin so Khans) became thieves and Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor became kingpin of coal mafia. Entered officers Abhishek Bacchan/Irrfaan Khan to take these criminals down and when they not succeeded they use actresses Katrina Kaif/Priyanka Chopra to create disputes between them. And both actresses just good in one thing i.e. rope dance.(just kidding, they had few dialogues as well)!and in the end officers succeeded but unable to capture them because our both heroes died at last because they cant live without each other .

So  in one or other way movies have influence over one another. Now its another part will be published soon where I will show more such movies which have influence of some another bollywood movies. If you liked this blog. Subscribe it, comment it and give your ideas to see your idea come into live.
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FOOTNOTES:
1.) Coming of age is a movie where actors transformation shows from their adolescence to adulthood. Such changes associated with sexual maturity.
2.) The protagonist is a narration main or central character around whom story is all based upon and with whom main character have conflict is known as antagonist 
 3.) Neo noir are those films where visual elements are included low key lighting,unusual camera placement and striking use of light and shadow.here characters often conflicted antiheroes who make decision in lack of moral values. 
4.) Antiheroes are those who don't have ethics or norms which audience search in movie's lead.