The critics and reviewers could correctly trace the origins of the main story of Ghajini to Hollywood movie - Memento (2000) but what about the rom-com track. Murugadoss), casting the same heroine (Asin) and the same villain (Pradeep Rawat) in respective roles.
Why to tax your mind for thinking something original when so much stuff is available in the archives to plagiarize and gain unearned success (which the poor original thinkers could not gain) ? Ghajini is a highly successful movie which was first made in Telugu in 2005 with Surya in lead role and then remade in Hindi with Aamir Khan in lead role, by the same director (A.
Well, it became a bonanza for the copycats because they could copy the stories of many forgotten old movies and make new movies, putting old wine in new bottle. Their re-releases stopped with the advent of cable TV and by the end of the nineties, there came a time when people virtually forgot what were the stories of many interesting movies that had come during the bygone era. Later originality took a back-seat and gradually people used to forget about old movies too. That's why several novel ideas used to emerge for making feature films upon them after they were developed into interesting screenplays. There were specific story departments in the film companies where full time writers worked relentlessly on scripts. During the fifties, sixties and seventies, Bollywood boasted of good script-writers.
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