Shah Rukh Khan’s Swades copy of Ashutosh Gowariker helmed Show ‘America Return’ Goes Viral Netizens stunned
Shah Rukh Khan’s Swades copy of Ashutosh Gowariker helmed Show ‘America Return’ Goes Viral Netizens stunned
It’s a known fact that Shah Rukh Khan’s Swades was a cult Indian classic embedded with separate fan base. The film an Ashutosh Gowariker directorial garnered critically acclaim following its release.
But infact this film was heavily inspired by a tele-episode of a Zee TV series titled Yule Love Stories aired in 1993 – 94
The episode was titled America Return (Waapasi). But what shocks more is the lead of the telefilm.
Ashutosh Gowariker the
Character named Mohan in the lead. He falls in love with Gayatri and plans to take her to America! He never deemed it right even to alter the names of the characters. A viral clip on the internet shows the scenes from the serial, were replicated frame by frame for his film.
Film enthusiast shared the clip on her Twitter account, and it went viral from there on various social media platforms. The internet was shaken-up to watch the clip since all the heartfelt scenes from Swades were lifted from this episode initially not scripted or directed by Ashutosh Gowariker.
People wanted to know if the director ever credited the original brainchild behind this brilliant story.
Netizens reportedly even trolled Gowariker for not revealing that he had copied the entire idea for Swades from somewhere else. However, the film was inspired from a novel, which was also the inspiration for this episode. Some were even excited to see Kaveri Amma in the serial later cast in Swades as well!
A user attacked the industry and wrote, “Bollywood copy paste industry… Boycott SRK completely boycott Bollywood permanently…” Some even trolled Gowariker and wrote, “good find .Ashutosh showed great potential,but then Mohan jo dharo happen.”
What’s more, Ashutosh even kept the names of the Character dito as Kaveri Amma, Mohan, Geeta, Even the plotline is same to same.
For those unversed, Swades and this story on Zee TV’s love story episodics were based on the Kannada novel Chigurida Kanasu by Shivaram Karanth.
Admittedly, it was beautifully created by Ashutosh Gowariker; however, looking at the scenes and themes copied, the resemblance cannot be ignored.
News Edit K.V.Raman