![]() ![]() The list also contains three films by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu - ‘Amores perros’ (2000) and ‘Babel’ (2006) and the short film ‘Powder Keg’ (2001) (part of the "The Hire" series for BMW). It is considered to be the Austrian director’s most inscrutable work, and considering it’s Haneke, it’s saying a lot. It contains Haneke’s ‘Cache’, also known as ‘Hidden’ in the English-speaking world. But the content of the list is impressive. The filmmaker in question is Vetrimaran and the film is the Tamil film ‘Aadukalam’ for which Dhanush won the national award for Best Actor.Īs the film ends (which is a riveting watch by the way), we see a list of seven films under the title ‘Filmography’ and two books under the heading ‘Bibliography’. Not that his film was inspired by the films mentioned, or by the two books he mentions in the end credit, but it is heartening to see a filmmaker acknowledging the works of other filmmakers, and if Michel Haneke is in the list, you know, it’s something special. In this context, here is a film and here is a filmmaker, who puts boldly his inspirations on the front of the end credit of his film. When someone points out the similarities, they’d simply say, they not copies they were inspired by the original. These Hindi movies copy plot-points, at times even frame-to-frame sequences from foreign films and even fail to acknowledge the source. ![]()
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