It’s not just Hollywood that shovels up films to be remade.

Bollywood producers are always on the lookout for possible titles that can be given a slight tweak – or in some cases, no change at all – and repurposed for Indian audiences, with added song and dance sequences, of course.

With Warners warning them not to touch The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button without approval, we look at other films that seem remarkably similar to American blockbusters…


The original: Collateral (2005)

The remake: The Killer (2006)

How similar are they? Identical, as far as we can discover.

The Killer features Vikram, a ruthless and well-dressed hitman who, who slaughters his victims professionally and without batting an eyelid. Sound familiar?

One fateful night he gets into the cab of Nikhil, who ferries him around at first without realising just how dangerous his latest fare is.

The only real difference we can find is that Nikhil has a bar dancer as a girlfriend instead of Jamie Foxx’s flirt-target, US prosecutor Jada Pinkett Smith.

Do we recommend the original or the remake? Despite the presence of Indian beauty Kothari, we’ll still take Michael Mann’s broody, digi-noir style thriller.