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Shame on you, Bollywood.

"Bollywood, India's movie industry, churns out over 800 flicks a year. But with all those numbers it's hard for them to keep up with the creative work. So a lot of movies turn out to be 'inspired by' movies from all over, especially Hollywood. And at the rate they are going with good and hit movies, very soon we'll be seeing a copy of "Plan 9 from Outer Space".
Therefore to keep ourselves, and you people of course, up-to-date with this ever increasing theme, script, scene and music stealing - or borrowing - trend in Bollywood, we have created BollyCat.com. Help us catalog Bollywood's acts of shame!"

If the term Bollywood brings movies like "Monsoon Wedding" to your mind, then you don't really know what Bollywood is. A Bollywood movie is not complete without a love story, some drama, dance, and atleast 5 songs. Doesn't matter if it's categorized as an action movie or a comedy, it has to have those elements to succeed in the Indian market. Now imagine Hollywood hits from every genre (action, suspense, comedy, drama and even sci-fi) being remade with an Indian twist every year and thrown at you at a pace 4 times as that of Hollywood itself. That's Bollywood. And those are BollyCats.

Huge by Indian standards, Bollywood is still in infancy internationally. An average Bollywood movie costs around $2 million to make and the industry's entire worldwide earnings are roughly $100 million dollars (outside of India, of course).

Accordingly, the industry is always under huge stress from within to churn out that "different kind of" movie which would then hopefully win audiences and become a "super-hit". So the directors, screen writers, music composers and even cinematographers do the only thing that they believe would prove successful... a remake of a Hollywood idea.

According to insiders, there are screen-writers who specialize in writing copycat scripts. They watch the latest theater releases on bootleg DVDs and are ready with their own Indianized version in no time.

They call it "inspiration", we call it plain old "stealing the idea". Since no royalties are paid to the original content creators 99.99% of the times, it's not legal either. But since Bollywood is so minuscule on the International scene in terms of earnings, Hollywood simply ignores it. And so the Indian writers and directors are given a freehand to keep doing what they've been doing for decades...

And that's why BollyCat has been created. We hope that the existence of this website would reduce the number of plagiarism cases in Bollywood. But until the day they stop plagiarizing everything, we'll be here, cataloging their acts of shame.

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