The copycat phenomenon
Congratulations Chief Judicial Magistrate Dinesh Gupta of the Jaipur High court, Poonam Chand Bhandari and Pawan Surana for the launch of Bade Bhai, the Indian version of Big Brother.
The object of THIS new serial is basically the same: Get Shilpa Shetty into a confined space (read prison) with no contact with the outside world and humiliate her, but in her OWN country, why should the Brits have fun at the expense of Indian women when we are perfectly capable of doing it ourselves!
I’m sure Bade Bhai will upstage the Bacchan post-wedding bacchanalia, and detract from the pain of the Great Indian World Cup 2007 Disaster.
Wonder whether the Honourable Dineshji, Poonam and Pawan know about the erotica of the Konark Sun Temple and Vatsayana’s Kama Sutra.( Maybe they can start a book-burning club and launch an agitation to bring down the temple “Ayodhya-style”.)
But, case in point - we have no originality.
I went back in time ( about 12.30 pm) to see if I could find more examples of Indian plagiarism and I hit a mother lode…….
Plagiarists 8 – The VHP and the Shiv Sena - feeble attempts to ape the Afghan Taliban with their versions of Indian History & Culture and its defense. (Oops! now THEY know about Konark and the Kama Sutra. Darn!)
Plagiarism 7 – Indian Contemporary Pop Music and dance ( American Rap, Hip Hop and Disco right down to the “Yo Mon”, “Wassup Dude” and the hi-five hand slap)
Plagiarism 6 – Bollywood, Tollywood & Kollywood ( D-uh): wonder if Dineshji watches all those item girls in Hindi movies.
Plagiarist 5 – Bappi Lahiri – The original plagiarist.
Plagiarism 4 – Kaun Banega Crorepati (Who wants to be a millionaire)
Plagiarist 3 – Kaavya Viswanathan, Harvard Sophomore who has now switched names on her book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild & Got a Life to How Shilpa Shetty Got Kissed, Was Summoned & Became World Famous soon to be a major Bollywood motion picture starring Dev Anand as Richard Gere.
Plagiarism 2 - Dhoom 1 and 2 (The Fast and The Furious meet The Matrix), and Krrish (Superman, Batman and other Comic Book Heroes – shaken not stirred)
And at the top of the list:
Plagiarist 1 - Rahul G. proclaiming his family the best AND so strong as to have divided Pakistan – Hah! Jokes on you Rahul. My family is better, and guess who divided India, and Korea and Germany and….
Future Plagiarism : Indian Idol with Host Govinda
Copycats: Call Centre employees with their fake American accents and names
Decaying Leftovers from the Raj:
Bad English accents ,worse grammar: ”But Saar, vee are like this wonly!”
Men in Three Piece Business Suits with Necktie nooses for formal occasions (Indian womanhood I hail & salute you for retaining the graceful Sari AND for improving on its originality)
Red Tape, Bureaucracy & Corruption (Dating right back to the Rig(ged) Vedas)
Khushwant Singh
Gotta run ,there’s the James Laine book –burning I just HAVE to attend. How dare a British Author pre-empt one of ours by claiming to know more about our own dead heroes indiscretions.
