The one where Mallika Sherawat spoke to Subhash K Jha about her Khwahish.
Govind Menon’s Khwahish, released on June 6 , 2003, was an oddity. It not only ripped off Arthur Hiller’s 1970 blockbuster Love Story, it also literally translated every dialogue of the original.
Although the dialogues, like most of everything else in this film, have been transcreated wholesale from Erich Segal’s epoch-making novel Love Story, the dialogue writer Shashi Wadia takes credit for the words that the Ryan O’Neal-Ali MacGraw clones are made to speak by director Govind Menon in his second feature film.
Of course, the peppy MacGraw called O’Neal ‘Preppie’ in Love Story. Her clone, Mallika Sherawat, calls Himanshu Mallik ‘Sethji’ instead.
Dial Bollywood for innovation.
Menon’s first film Danger was largely ripped off from another Hollywood source (Bound). Now Menon goes at Arthur Hiller’s 1969 adaptation of Erich Segal’s novel with enormous enthusiasm.
Govind Menon’s Khwahish, released on June 6 , 2003, was an oddity. It not only ripped off Arthur Hiller’s 1970 blockbuster Love Story, it also literally translated every dialogue of the original.
Although the dialogues, like most of everything else in this film, have been transcreated wholesale from Erich Segal’s epoch-making novel Love Story, the dialogue writer Shashi Wadia takes credit for the words that the Ryan O’Neal-Ali MacGraw clones are made to speak by director Govind Menon in his second feature film.
Of course, the peppy MacGraw called O’Neal ‘Preppie’ in Love Story. Her clone, Mallika Sherawat, calls Himanshu Mallik ‘Sethji’ instead.
Dial Bollywood for innovation.
Menon’s first film Danger was largely ripped off from another Hollywood source (Bound). Now Menon goes at Arthur Hiller’s 1969 adaptation of Erich Segal’s novel with enormous enthusiasm.
- 6/6/2025
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
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