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...@yahoo.comwrote:
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
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Cheers,
Pradeepan.
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