[icernet] Hollywood to Bollywood, without love

[Arul Selvan]

  Take a Hollywood plot, sprinkle in cheesy song-and-dance numbers and 
pour in a jug of melodrama. Shake well, and you've got a Bollywood 
movie. But Bollywood, which churns out some 800 movies annually, may be 
forced to alter its recipe after best-selling novelist Barbara Taylor 
Bradford persuaded India's Supreme Court last month to ban a 260-part TV 
series she claimed stole heavily from her novels. Bradford's A Woman of 
Substance and two sequels deal with a woman's struggle to establish 
herself. In the TV series, Karishma - The Miracles of Destiny, Bollywood 
actor Karishma Kapoor overcomes her obstacles to become a business 
tycoon. India's movie industry has never hidden its fascination for 
Hollywood. Even its name suggests it's a happy clone. Bollywood writers 
told of how colleagues furiously scribble dialogue while watching the 
latest Hollywood DVD and directors study the DVD on the set before 
copying the movie frame by frame.

Source:
http://www.canada.com/entertainment/story.asp?id=3C5B320B-A173-4166-AFFD-408B8AFCD313