AAR YA PAAR - copied from James Hadley Chase novel
Neeraj Deshmukh - The Falcon
r_kr...@hotmail.com (Ravi Krishna) writes:
> Saw Aar ya Paar (starring Jackie Shroff) on video. The story of the
> film is copied scene to scene from a James Hadley Chase novel which
> I read some 20 years back. The name of the novel is "the sucker
> punch" or something like that.
I am (a little) surprized to know that you did not know this
ahead of watching the film. Even a very basic story outline of the
film is actually enough for any JHC fan/reader to figure that one out,
and I was under the impression that it was a well known fact that the
film was based on a JHC novel.
> Ketan Mehta has disappointed me by going for such a blatant copy
> with no originality on his side. If you remove the songs from the
> film it will be a 100% adaption of JHC novel.
:-) And what is wrong with that? It is accepted practice all
over the world to adapt books into movies of every genre. The only
valid objection I can think of is that the original source i.e. the
novel should have been cited in the credits.
I do not recall the credit titles very well, but if I am not
mistaken there is no mention of 'story' being credited to anyone,
while Ketan Mehta credits himself for the screenplay (and direction,
of course).
The plus of the movie for me was that the story is quite good
and as far removed from the typical Bollywood potboilers that are
churned out dime a dozen as it could get; and the music score.
Actingwise it is no great shakes --- Jackie is wasted, I have always
considered Deepa Sahi a poor actress (and she does nothing to dispel
that notion), and the less said about Kamal Sidhu (what a voice!) and
Ritu Shivpuri the better. Also, the dialogues are extremely poorly
written.
Ciao,
ND
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Ravi Krishna wrote:
What
> KetanM should have done is that he should have indianised it. I am not against
> making movies from novels , but a stupid copy like AYP does not make any sense.
With all due honor, just because your average run of the mill masala
movie officianado doesn't get it doesn't make AYP a "stupid" movie. The
average Indian can't identify with the Jackie Shroff anti-hero. So what
? These same people made a Lamhe or Silsila flop.
Regards
Manzoor
Kuntal Shah
Ravi Krishna wrote:
>
> If you look at the story of AYP , it is quite clear that the story does not fit
> in Indian culture. The whole story looks artificial in indian context. What
> KetanM should have done is that he should have indianised it. I am not against
> making movies from novels , but a stupid copy like AYP does not make any sense.
> like Sholapur enjoying it.
> KamalHassan indianised the movie "mrs doubtfire" and "9 to 5" and that's why
> they were enjoyable.
>
That is why he made the location to be some place in the African
continent
( Do not remember the country's name ). I think that's enough to make
it
palatable. Otherwise you can never adapt a "foreign" story in Hindi
movie.
And don't you think that if people like us could like it, there would
be
many more ? I mean, if there are so many people who like JHC books,
there
is no reason why movies of this kind can not succeed.
Best Regards,
Kuntal. ( kun...@india.ti.com )