- · Salman Khan as Jai Chopra
- · Govinda as Raj Ahuja
- · Tabu as Savitri
- · Lara Dutta as Ishikha
- · Aashish Chaudhary as Virat Chopra
- · Vishal Malhotra as Jimmy Khanna
- · Boman Irani as Veer Ahuja
- · Rajpal Yadav as Ghokla Bhai
- · Satish Shah as Satish Malhotra
- · Zakir Hussain as Javed Quadri
The director was served
using
a legal notice during
2009 by last
century Fox, which charged that
the movie blatantly plagiarized the 1992 comedy My Cousin Vinny.
Chopra along
with the production company, Mumbai-based BR Films, denied the
fees in
the courtroom in May 2009 the movie's release was
to be delayed until June 2009 by order with
the Bombay High Court.
Fox sought damages of $1.4 million this was the first time a Bollywood filmmaker was delivered to court by way of a Hollywood company over the remaking of a film. Fox had given Chopra permission "to make a film loosely in line with the Oscar winning movie" but concluded the last product would have been a "substantial reproduction" from the original.When BR Films's Ravi Chopra began filming his Govinda-Lara Dutta comedy Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai, he was clear which he'sd completely overhauled and re-written an Indianised version of My Cousin Vinny. Apparently, as he began the film, Ravi had sought the remaking rights but was assured that since he was taking only a concept and he'd written a totally fresh screenplay, there was no requirement to find the rights. He said that they'd even got written permission from the makers of My Cousin Vinny to go ahead along with his Hindi film. But relating to the starting in the film as well as completion, the marketplace changed colours.
BR Films and BIG, the Reliance wing that had the distribution rights, soon locked horns over the price's the second wanted BR to re-negotiate terms but the former felt it turned out now on offer peanuts. With the film prepared to hit the theaters but BIG in no mood to complete the needful with an unaffordable price, Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai languished from the cans prior to the Chopras chose to simply end the deal and release it themselves.
With perfect timing, a case was slapped on BR Films by Twentieth Century Fox for flicking their film without acquiring the rights! B R Films, which has been charged with plagiarism by Hollywood studio twentieth century Fox, had settled the truth out-of-court to have an undisclosed amount.
The Kolkata Telegraph, listing a great many other Bollywood movies "inspired" by Hollywood blockbusters, noted that this case would "decide whether Indian filmmakers could obtain 'inspiration' with impunity, or buy rights the legal way."
Fox sought damages of $1.4 million this was the first time a Bollywood filmmaker was delivered to court by way of a Hollywood company over the remaking of a film. Fox had given Chopra permission "to make a film loosely in line with the Oscar winning movie" but concluded the last product would have been a "substantial reproduction" from the original.When BR Films's Ravi Chopra began filming his Govinda-Lara Dutta comedy Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai, he was clear which he'sd completely overhauled and re-written an Indianised version of My Cousin Vinny. Apparently, as he began the film, Ravi had sought the remaking rights but was assured that since he was taking only a concept and he'd written a totally fresh screenplay, there was no requirement to find the rights. He said that they'd even got written permission from the makers of My Cousin Vinny to go ahead along with his Hindi film. But relating to the starting in the film as well as completion, the marketplace changed colours.
BR Films and BIG, the Reliance wing that had the distribution rights, soon locked horns over the price's the second wanted BR to re-negotiate terms but the former felt it turned out now on offer peanuts. With the film prepared to hit the theaters but BIG in no mood to complete the needful with an unaffordable price, Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai languished from the cans prior to the Chopras chose to simply end the deal and release it themselves.
With perfect timing, a case was slapped on BR Films by Twentieth Century Fox for flicking their film without acquiring the rights! B R Films, which has been charged with plagiarism by Hollywood studio twentieth century Fox, had settled the truth out-of-court to have an undisclosed amount.
The Kolkata Telegraph, listing a great many other Bollywood movies "inspired" by Hollywood blockbusters, noted that this case would "decide whether Indian filmmakers could obtain 'inspiration' with impunity, or buy rights the legal way."
