Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai
| Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai | |
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| Directed by | Ravi Chopra |
| Produced by | Ravi Chopra BR Chopra |
| Starring | Govinda Salman Khan Tabu Lara Dutta Boman Irani Rajpal Yadav |
| Music by | Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Javed Akhtar (lyrics) |
| Cinematography | Barun Mukherjee |
| Edited by | Akiv Ali |
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| Distributed by | BR Films |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai is a Bollywood comedy film directed by Ravi Chopra, starring Govinda, Salman Khan, Tabu,[1] Lara Dutta,[2] and Boman Irani.[3]
Cast
- Salman Khan
- Govinda as Raj Ahuja
- Tabu
- Lara Dutta
- Aashish Chaudhary as Vikram Malhotra
- Vishal Malhotra as Jimmy Khanna
- Boman Irani as Veer Ahuja
- Rajpal Yadav as Ghokla Bhai
- Satish Shah as Satish Malhotra
- Zakir Hussain as Javed Quadri
Plagiarism charge
When BR Films’ Ravi Chopra began filming Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai, he was clear that he’d completely overhauled and written an Indianised version of the 1992 comedy My Cousin Vinny. Apparently, when he began the film, Ravi had sought the remaking rights but was assured that since he was taking only an idea and he’d written a totally fresh screenplay, there was no need to buy the rights. He said that he’d even got written permission from the makers of My Cousin Vinny to go ahead with his Hindi film. But between the starting of the film and its completion, the market changed colours. BR Films and BIG, the Reliance wing that had the distribution rights, soon locked horns over the price — the latter wanted BR to re-negotiate terms but the former felt it was now being offered peanuts. With the film ready to hit the theaters but BIG in no mood to do the needful at an unaffordable price, Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai languished in the cans until the Chopras ended the deal and released it themselves.
The director was served with a legal notice in 2009 by 20th Century Fox, which charged that the movie blatantly plagiarized My Cousin Vinny.[3] Chopra and the production company, Mumbai-based BR Films, denied the charges in court in May 2009; the movie's release was to be delayed until June 2009[4] by order of the Bombay High Court.[1] A lawsuit was filed on BR Films by Twentieth Century Fox for copying their film without buying the rights.[1][5][6]
Fox sought damages of $1.4 million; this was the first time a Bollywood filmmaker was taken to court by a Hollywood company over the remaking of a film. Fox had given Chopra permission "to make a film loosely based on the Oscar winning movie" but concluded the final product was a "substantial reproduction" of the original. B R Films settled the case out of court for an undisclosed amount.[7]
The Kolkata Telegraph, listing a number of other Bollywood movies "inspired" by Hollywood blockbusters, noted that the case would "decide whether Indian filmmakers can continue to get their 'inspiration' with impunity, or buy rights the legal way."[8]
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