first of all, Ghajini is NOT Memento. Memento is an all time great movie, Ghajini is a cheap attempt to use the concept of short term memory loss and mix it with our usual Masala. The story lines / plot & the whole objective of Memento is nowhere there in Ghajini. So your question is not applicable in the 1st place.
2ndly, ARR has nothing to do with any movie's storylines & their sources. On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:25 AM, pradeepananth <[email protected]>wrote: > So Ghajini is out and looks like its all set to break all box office > records. Aamir, the producers and everyone involved is going to rake > in a lot of moolah. > > As far as I know, Murugadoss & Co. did not quite pay Christopher > Nolan, his brother Jonathan Nolan(original story) or the producers of > Memento for the rights of the movie. Maybe the tamil ghajini didn't > quite hit their radar but the Hindi one because of its high-profile > nature will probably do and they might come after Murugadoss & co. > > In any case, I am disgusted that these guys didn't quite go and > acquire the rights first from the original writer/director/producers > before ripping it off. If they don't have any qualms ripping off > others' "intellectual property", why should they expect their audience > to not go for pirated DVDs and VCDs of their movie? Why do they appeal > to them to not watch through 'illegal sources' when what they are > doing is by no means "legal"? (I am no lawyer but I am pretty sure > that Ghajini will be deemed a case of plagiarism under most > intellectual property laws) > > Question to ARR is even though he is not directly ripping off the > story, he is certainly 'associated' with the movie and I wonder if he > ought to have put a foot down and said that he would not want to be > associated with a movie where the intellectual property rights of > another creative artist are being violated. After all ARR doesn't > appreciate people downloading his music through illegal sources and > not paying for it. He knows how much its hurts an artiste. > > Folks with access to ARR - if you could get his stance on this issue, > that would be awesome. > > Thoughts? > -pradeep > > > -- Cheers, Pradeepan. "All you need to do is, decide what to do with the time that is given to you !"
