BOLLYWOOD has a tradition of remaking Hollywood blockbusters - and of spicing up even the grittiest thrillers with big song and dance numbers and wet sari scenes.
But if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, India's film-makers have finally taken their adulation too far. For the first time, a Bollywood producer has been forced to pay for plagiarising a Hollywood hit.
Twentieth Century Fox took the Mumbai-based BR Films to court, alleging that the Indian company's forthcoming Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai (This Guy is Fearless) was an illegal remake of the American studio's Oscar-winning crime caper My Cousin Vinny, which was released in 1992.
This week BR Films agreed to pay Twentieth Century Fox, which is 82.1 per cent owned by News Corporation, the parent company of The Australian, about $US200,000 in an out-of-court settlement. More...
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