The other day I was watching the Hindi movie THE KILLER. It instantly reminded me the movie COLLATERAL from 2005. It was all over Deja Vu for me. Tom Cruize, playing the role of a ruthless contract killer, goes around killing people in LA and Jamie Fox is his cab driver. The later won the Best Supporting Actor for his role in that movie, gracefully playing the role of a cab driver who is scared but still keeping his nerve.
They say that our Hindi movie "Killer" is inspired by the original English movie "Collateral". If this is true then we need to redefine the word plagiarism. In the movie Collateral, Tom Cruize kills his first victim who lands up on hapless Jamie Fox's cab. A baffled Jamie Fox asks Tom Cruize "Did you kill him ?", to which the later gave a nonchalant answer "No. I just shot him. The bullet and the fall killed him".
I starkly remember this dialogue from the movie. Now in its Hindi version "KILLER" Emran Hashmi asks Irfaan Khan "TUMNE ISSE MAAR DAALA ?" to which Irfaan playing Tom Cruize's counterpart responds " ARE MAINE KAHA MAARA, MENE US PAR SIRF GOLI CHALAAI, WOH GOLI LAGNE AUR GIRNE SE MARA". Wow..so much of inspiration by the original movie that even the dialogues were copied line by line.
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