I have watched so many movies in past 10 odd months - both American and Hindi. Every once in a while I stumble upon an American movie and I think I have seen a similar Hindi movie and vice-verse. In most of those(I can say all but will stick to most) cases, the Hindi movie is a copy/inspiration of the American movie. I am going to compile the list and add the tag Hollywood to Bollywood for all of them.
Here goes my first list:
Woodstock Villa(2008) - Vertigo(1958)
Anamika(2008) - Rebecca(1940)
Shaurya (2008) - A Few Good Men(1992)
Munnabhai M.B.B.S. - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975) (Yes, even I coudn't believe it)
Mann (1999) - An Affair To Remember(1954)
Akele Hum Akele Tum(1995) - Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Chori Chori Chupke Chupke(2001) - Pretty Woman(1990)
Aitraaz(2004) - Disclosure(1994)
Pyaar Ka Saaya(1991) - Ghost(1990)
Partner(2007) - Hitch(2005)
God Tussi Great Ho(2008) - Bruce Almighty(2003)
Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hain - My Best Friend's Wedding(1997)
Kaante(2002) - Reservoir Dogs(1992) and The Usual Suspects(1995)
Chocolate(2005) - The Usual Suspects(1995)
Musafir(2004) - U Turn(1997)
I am sure I will be able to add a lot to this list in future.
8/22/2008
8/05/2008
Open-source and Communism
Most of you reading this may want to ridicule me saying what an eerie thought!!! I ridiculed myself too and ended up deleting my draft post on this that I had started writing sometime last week. Finally, I decided to write about it.
Definition of communism: Communism is a socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of a classless, stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production and property in general.
Open-source is also similar. People work together towards building an open-source software and they get rewarded for the same. They use other open-source software and at the same time their software may be used by others. This way they have a common goal regardless of their individuality and they have a joint ownership of the software. The theory is that this collaborative process encourages innovation and decreases bugs by increasing the number of people with a stake in the project.
I consider open-source to be a fast developing, prominent, cost-effective and efficient force in today's world. Similar to any software project, adequate planning and management is essential for the success of any open-source project/product. Open-source promotes platform independence and decoupling.
Leading corporations including SAP and Microsoft have openly expressed their reservations against open-source movement. A CEO of a big corporation even went on to name open-source operating system Linux "a cancer". But companies like Red Hat, Sun and many others have not only benefited but made profits by being open-source companies. Many of us have already given up on IE and started using Firefox as their primary browser - which is again an open-source product.
I am no expert on communism and neither I am a communist nor I believe in communism more that democracy. Whether open-source is communism or not is very debatable topic; but at least they are comparable. They have similarities and share some of the fundamental principles. I currently work on an open-source project and that may have influenced my thought process. I am a firm believer of open-source and looking forward to use(and build) many more efficient open-source software in future.
Cheers !!!
Definition of communism: Communism is a socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of a classless, stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production and property in general.
Open-source is also similar. People work together towards building an open-source software and they get rewarded for the same. They use other open-source software and at the same time their software may be used by others. This way they have a common goal regardless of their individuality and they have a joint ownership of the software. The theory is that this collaborative process encourages innovation and decreases bugs by increasing the number of people with a stake in the project.
I consider open-source to be a fast developing, prominent, cost-effective and efficient force in today's world. Similar to any software project, adequate planning and management is essential for the success of any open-source project/product. Open-source promotes platform independence and decoupling.
Leading corporations including SAP and Microsoft have openly expressed their reservations against open-source movement. A CEO of a big corporation even went on to name open-source operating system Linux "a cancer". But companies like Red Hat, Sun and many others have not only benefited but made profits by being open-source companies. Many of us have already given up on IE and started using Firefox as their primary browser - which is again an open-source product.
I am no expert on communism and neither I am a communist nor I believe in communism more that democracy. Whether open-source is communism or not is very debatable topic; but at least they are comparable. They have similarities and share some of the fundamental principles. I currently work on an open-source project and that may have influenced my thought process. I am a firm believer of open-source and looking forward to use(and build) many more efficient open-source software in future.
Cheers !!!
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