Indian film critics have gone on the rampage against Bollywood criminal Sanjay Dutt’s new film Knock Out, which debuted in theaters today.
Outright Theft
An Indian court in Mumbai has already ruled that Knock Out is a copy of the 2003 Hollywood film Phone Booth (Collin Farrrell, Kiefer Sutherland) following a complaint by 20th Century Fox. But the producers of Knock Out managed to get a stay of the court’s ruling by appealing to a two-judge bench.
A lot of Indian films are unwatchable horror-shows and are often outright copies of successful Hollywood or other foreign movies.
Consumed by raw greed, disdainful of others’ intellectual property rights and utterly bereft of shame, Indian film stars are often willful accomplices in the continuing theft of Hollywood/foreign movies.
Unlike Chinese, Italian, French, German, Spanish or Korean films that have won audiences beyond their native countries, Indian movies have failed to attract audiences outside of South Asia or the vast diaspora in the U.S., UK, New Zealand, Middle East, South Africa and South East Asia because the movies are mostly crude, amateur stuff.
Knock Out is in limited release in the U.S., presumably because the producers are scared of the legal repercussions. The movie is playing at Anil Ambani’s Big Cinemas theater in North Bergen, NJ, a few miles outside the Midtown Tunnel in Manhattan and a few other theaters elsewhere.
Here’s what a sample of Indian movie critics had to say on Knock Out:
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