Whenever the scripts of Tamil films resemble some Hollywood movies to those who regularly watch English movies, it is said that these Tamil films are ‘inspired’ by those English flicks. The word ‘plagiarism’ is a taboo as far as Kollywood’s film-makers are concerned and they’d simply admit that their film was ‘merely inspired’ by a Hollywood film.
Suriya’s upcoming film Maatraan opposite sizzling Kajal Aggarwal and directed by K.V. Anand is said to be ‘loosely’ based on the 2003 Hollywood flick Stuck On You whose script was also about conjoined twins directed by Farrelly brothers. Anand, however insists that the script was borne out of a book he had come across some time back during a journey.
Anand had also vehemently denied that the film’s script was in any way similar to the Tamil-Kannada bilingual Charulata which stars Priyamani in the lead. It now turns out that Maatraan is ‘heavily inspired’ by the Hollywood flick Stuck On You which was about conjoined twins who had similar thoughts, ideas, acts and tastes.
Anand’s earlier successful flicks such as Ayan and Ko were also said to be ‘loosely’ based on some English films. With Maatraan, Anand might even end up scoring a hat-trick of hits but the ‘inspiration’ tag might not desert him for now!
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