Bizarre one – Dark Knight knock-off in a Bhojpuri movie

The costume used by the Joker is what Devdas uses. EXACTLY the same one – same folds, same shoes, same cuffs – absolutely ridiculous.

 

Plagiarism in Forthcoming Movies – 14 – Aamir Khan’s Talaash Fan Poster

UPDATE: This is a Fan Poster and the Original looks nothing like this. Hat-tip to Nosferatu

Hoodie: Borrow from MI-4

Falling Text: Old Matrix poster and more recently from MI-4 & TTSS

Such a shoddy job … Tcch. Tcch.

Plagiarism in Forthcoming Movies – 13 – Vijay’s Yohan Adhyayam Ondru

I Love Shameless Rip-Offs!!

Vijay’s forthcoming movie Yohan rips off from a 2008 French flick Largo Winch.

The emphasis of the other posters is on showing how cool the hero is and the extent of his globetrotting. Reminds me somewhere of the brilliant I am Legend poster set.

The one where he is kneeling before a red car reminds me of some poster I am not able to place a finger on.

Yohan

Marching Ants – Allah Ke Banday, City of Gold & other Bollywood Posters

The creative agency has figured out a way to make the poster look good – sprinkle some gold dust and get the sun behind the subject. Voilà – Classy looking poster. But, when you do it too many times, it is called overkill.

Marching Ants have created some of my all time favourite Bollywood posters – Be it Ishqiya, Dev D, Help, LSD, Udaan, Blue Umbrella or Udaan (again).

At the same time, they have done enough shameless rip-offs

Kisna (From Braveheart),

Lakshya (Shadow Concept from Mad Magazine & Some Posters),

Johnny Gaddar (From Big Lebowski and countless posters featuring sunglasses with reflective surfaces,

Johnny Gaddar (Again) (From countless “Running Man” posters)

Once upon a time in Mumbai from Mr & Mrs Smith,

Anjaana Anjaani (From An Education) and even their old posters like Ek Hasina Thi,Vaastu Shaastra & Goal were lifted .

Take a look at their creations and you will see both the Genius & the Copycat there. Sad that a talented agency has to resort to pinching others’ work.

Now for the Overkill bit…

Plagiarism in Forthcoming Movies – 11 – Hisss

Mallika Sherawat’s movie is expected to be horrendous – If these videos are to be believed (1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ) . Future fodder for my other blog

The Poster is such a blatant Ripoff of King Arthur.

There is a movie from Hong Kong / China which has a similar poster – Am unable to place it (Not Red Cliff)

Plagiarism in Forthcoming Movies – 10 – Vandhan Vendran

Poster 1 from Hollywood  - Going the Distance

Poster 2 from Bollywood  - I Hate Luv Storys

Yet to sit down and figure out where the other posters are from

Plagiarism in Forthcoming Movies – 9 – Social Network

Design houses have a trademark Look & feel to their work - Crew Creative,  BLT or Pritish Nandy Communications.

The recent movie poster trend of copy on top of an image using photoshop is  the equivalent of a big boss making horrible additions to your carefully crafted powerpoint slide.

The “Facebook Movie” is about Plagiarism and it is indeed apt that the movie poster is a “Repurposed” one. The creative Agency Kellerhouse reused the concept from the Criterion Cover they created for The Man who fell to Earth for the poster of The Social Network. In fact, they seem to be specialists in the “Throw some text in the middle of an image to create impact” variety of posters.

 

Hat Tip: Monkeyartawards

Plagiarism in Forthcoming Movies – 8 – Endhiran

The posters dangerously resemble a few movies - Matrix Reloaded , Spidey & Terminator series.

Plagiarism in Forthcoming Movies – 7 – Yuvan Yuvathi and Rene Magritte

After a lot of Bollywood-bashing, here’s a Tamil movie which is one of the most shameless rips I have seen so far.

Rene Magritte’s classic painting The Lovers (Les Amants) has been used as the poster announcing shooting. Lots of movies have used paintings as inspiration. But, this one just “uses” the painting.

I do hope someone taking the movie pays up the royalty to use this painting.

See for yourself:

Magritte’s Lovers  series consists of 4 paintings.

There are also the 4 Covered Heads (which includes the 2 paintings in the Lovers series)

L’histoire centrale (The central story)

L’invention de la vie (The Invention of Life)

As usual, the meaning of the paintings remain shrouded in mystery. Theories range from Fantomas to his mother’s suicide , Love is Blind all the way down to Nick Carter Detective magazines.

One more post on Magritte & Movie Posters / Album art will follow.

Plagiarism in Forthcoming Movies – 6 – Anjaana Anjaani

Blatant Ripoff … The Cobblestone, the Pose, The Black tie…

Shame on the Poster designers for Anjaana Anjaani !!