Well said Preedeepan. Looks like people havent watched niether momento nor ghajini..Both r different movies..
Really sick of reading the same crap all over the net.. --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "Pradeepan R" <pradeepanisonl...@...> wrote: > > first of all, Ghajini is NOT Memento. > Memento is an all time great movie, Ghajini is a cheap attempt to use the > concept of short term memory loss and mix it with our usual Masala. The > story lines / plot & the whole objective of Memento is nowhere there in > Ghajini. So your question is not applicable in the 1st place. > > 2ndly, ARR has nothing to do with any movie's storylines & their sources. > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:25 AM, pradeepananth <pradeepana...@...>wrote: > > > So Ghajini is out and looks like its all set to break all box office > > records. Aamir, the producers and everyone involved is going to rake > > in a lot of moolah. > > > > As far as I know, Murugadoss & Co. did not quite pay Christopher > > Nolan, his brother Jonathan Nolan(original story) or the producers of > > Memento for the rights of the movie. Maybe the tamil ghajini didn't > > quite hit their radar but the Hindi one because of its high- profile > > nature will probably do and they might come after Murugadoss & co. > > > > In any case, I am disgusted that these guys didn't quite go and > > acquire the rights first from the original writer/director/producers > > before ripping it off. If they don't have any qualms ripping off > > others' "intellectual property", why should they expect their audience > > to not go for pirated DVDs and VCDs of their movie? Why do they appeal > > to them to not watch through 'illegal sources' when what they are > > doing is by no means "legal"? (I am no lawyer but I am pretty sure > > that Ghajini will be deemed a case of plagiarism under most > > intellectual property laws) > > > > Question to ARR is even though he is not directly ripping off the > > story, he is certainly 'associated' with the movie and I wonder if he > > ought to have put a foot down and said that he would not want to be > > associated with a movie where the intellectual property rights of > > another creative artist are being violated. After all ARR doesn't > > appreciate people downloading his music through illegal sources and > > not paying for it. He knows how much its hurts an artiste. > > > > Folks with access to ARR - if you could get his stance on this issue, > > that would be awesome. > > > > Thoughts? > > -pradeep > > > > > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > Pradeepan. > > "All you need to do is, decide what to do with the time that is given to you > !" >
