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)
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
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
The posters dangerously resemble a few movies - Matrix Reloaded , Spidey & Terminator series.
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)
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.
Similar… Definitely inspired
Emraan Hashmi = Angelina Jolie ; Ajay Devgn = Brad Pitt !!
Blatant Ripoff … The Cobblestone, the Pose, The Black tie…
Shame on the Poster designers for Anjaana Anjaani !!
I have blogged about poster plagiarism classics like Nayee Padosan, Runway, Red Alert, Click & Flat where there are multiple ripoffs.This one absolutely rocks.
The font used for the Titles are from 24. What’s even cooler is the abandoned Season-1 font has also been used.
The movie is an “experimental” one which was shot in 24 hours. Guess the posters were also made in the same time given the lifts.
Zokkomon = Kick-ass !
I don’t mean it is awesome… I mean that the poster (and concept) is shamelessly lifted. The costumes of Red Mist & Zokkomon are very similar. Look at the similarity of poses – Uncanny resemblance. And what is it with rooftop tiles? and all of these on top of a building.
Does Disney not know what is happening in Hollywood? See the posters for yourself.
