Yes, the recidivist dickheads in Bollywood have done it again.
You ask, done what again?
We say, what else – Theft.
Kidnap director Sanjay Gadhvi and his dirty accomplices in crime have stolen a fairly decent Hollywood movie (released in 2007 as Shattered in the U.S. and Butterfly on a Wheel elsewhere) and mangled it into a ugly horror-show starring one real-life criminal Sanjay Dutt and three artistic criminals – the ex-dopehead Sanjay Dutt, fluke-star Imran Khan and that half-naked monsterpiece Minissha Lambha.
Following a tip from a reader of the SearchIndia.com blog (Thanks – Araj), we borrowed a copy of Shattered from our neighborhood Blockbuster to see if there were similarities between Shattered and Kidnap.
After watching both Kidnap and Shattered, we have not an iota of doubt that Kidnap is one more instance of the lazy Bollywood pigs trying to take the easy way out to profits.
Featuring Pierce ‘James Bond’ Brosnan (kidnapper), Gerard Butler (father of kidnapped girl Sophie) and Maria Bello (mother of kidnapped girl) in key roles, Shattered is a good movie with strong performances by all three.
Here are some similarities between Kidnap and Shattered:
1. In both movies, the story revolves round the kidnapping of a young girl and the efforts by the parents to rescue her.
2. In both movies, the actual kidnapping is not shown as it happens (it’s shown very briefly in Kidnap in flashback).
3. In both movies, the kidnapper is not motivated by money.
4. In both movies, the motive for the kidnapping is revenge.
5. In both movies, the kidnapper orders a series of bizarre tasks to be completed under Continue reading »
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