The Adam Sandler-Jennifer Aniston flick 'Just Go With It' is remake of Salman Khan's 'Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya'. We find the missing link.
A plastic surgeon ( Adam Sandler), romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant ( Jennifer Aniston) to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie.
Does that story sound familiar? Remember David Dhawan's film Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya that released in 2005. That film had exactly the same storyline with Salman Khan playing Adam Sandler's role and Sushmita Sen playing Jennifer Aniston's character from Just Go With It .
So isn't it surprising that a Hollywood film has copied a Bollywood film, while the converse of it has always been true. So can Salman Khan, who has to his credit remake of South films like Ready, Bodyguard, Pokhiri (Wanted), etc, be now credited for being the inspiration behind Adam Sandler's Hollywood film which releases in India this week?
However the fact of the matter is that both Adam Sandler's Just Go With It and Salman Khan's Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya are a remake of a 1969 flick called Cactus Flower . Just that this time Bollywood was quicker than Hollywood in seeking inspiration!
Something like this also happened recently when Steve Carell's Dinner For Schmucks released last year which had exactly the same storyline as Vinay Pathak's superhit Bheja Fry . Incidentally both the films are a remake of the French film The Dinner Game that released way back in 1998.
A plastic surgeon ( Adam Sandler), romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant ( Jennifer Aniston) to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie.
Does that story sound familiar? Remember David Dhawan's film Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya that released in 2005. That film had exactly the same storyline with Salman Khan playing Adam Sandler's role and Sushmita Sen playing Jennifer Aniston's character from Just Go With It .
So isn't it surprising that a Hollywood film has copied a Bollywood film, while the converse of it has always been true. So can Salman Khan, who has to his credit remake of South films like Ready, Bodyguard, Pokhiri (Wanted), etc, be now credited for being the inspiration behind Adam Sandler's Hollywood film which releases in India this week?
However the fact of the matter is that both Adam Sandler's Just Go With It and Salman Khan's Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya are a remake of a 1969 flick called Cactus Flower . Just that this time Bollywood was quicker than Hollywood in seeking inspiration!
Something like this also happened recently when Steve Carell's Dinner For Schmucks released last year which had exactly the same storyline as Vinay Pathak's superhit Bheja Fry . Incidentally both the films are a remake of the French film The Dinner Game that released way back in 1998.
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