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Hari Puttar. Harry Potter. Coincidence?

In a vindaloo-ny fight only Bollywood could concoct, the creators of a new movie called "Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors" are being sued by Warner Bros. because their movie arguably is too similar to the "Harry Potter" series. Here's the thing: the "Hari" people say it's just a coincidence, and Hari's a common name in India and "Puttar" is Punjabi for son.

The studio wants an injunction against the film, which is set for release in September.




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16. 6. About No.2 comment - It is so funny to see and hear from losers like you. We get a good laugh, every time. According to you, no self respecting American will see this crap, so I am sure you will. You are saying that you don't want to smear your racist hate all over this board... so you admit you are a racist. What an idiot? I think you are an underachieving, obese, dumb idiot and you want to blame your loser life on other people. BTW, which self respecting Americans are you talking about - people that sleep around in the name of dating?, the one in 4 teenagers that have at least one kind of STD, women/girls that wear skimpy clothes and dance in front of thousands of people in the name of cheer leading, people that think that just entering college and doing one semester of work is amazing and they should be given awesome jobs for their effort, all the people that divorce because they are bored of their partners? parents that sexually abuse their own kids? I am not an idiot like you and I hate to generalize but idiots like you make people like me bad mouth. BTW, what is "stealing ideas from English?". What or Who is English? Are you drunk when you wrote this? Do you know that Christ and the story of Christ is based on the Supreme Hindu God, Krisna? Where do you think words like "mother" came from - from Sanskrit word "matar". So who copied who? Well, I don't even want to start this especially with idiot heads like you. Always blaming others. How do you think Native Americans felt when your ancestors came and took over their land?
Idiot, did you ever think of that? No because you are a selfish racist pig.

"Hari Puttar" is a not a made up name. Hari is a common Indian name and Puttar means "son" in Sanskrit. And like No.3 comment said, Harri Potter is not original. And there are millions of people all around the world that watch Indian films. Of course hicks like you don't know that.

I am sorry if people think I went overboard with my comment, but Hicks like No.2 will never hear anything that is different than what is in their ant-size head, what with living in his trailer day in and day out.

Posted at 10:16AM on Aug 26th 2008 by Sam
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I'll leave your poor grammar out of this and just ask, whatever happened to "judge not..."? Glad you're so evolved and above name calling. Way to invalidate your point via your own hatefulness. Good job.

Posted at 11:34AM on Aug 26th 2008 by Those who live in glass houses...

17. the real author of the stories is a woman named nancy stouffer. even though her character was named larry potter, the difference is only one letter. other characters in the (rowlings) books are right out stolen. so once again, warner bros. needs to and i quote "shut da hell up"

Posted at 11:40AM on Aug 26th 2008 by michelish

18. You racists punks make me sick...why don't you all go back to Europe, Africa or wherever else you came from? What do you think the Native Americans think of your Euro, etc ancestors? You racists won't be here if it wasn't for your hard-working, immigrant forefathers. They had a dream, worked hard, got educated, saved money and yes, even bought some of those 7-11s before people from India showed up. That's what makes America the greatest country in the world - anyone can make it if they work for it. Leave the Mexicans, Indians, Asians, alone... they're doing things that you're too lazy to even think about.

Posted at 11:42AM on Aug 26th 2008 by Fight Hate

19. Funny the only thing racist in this article is the Title. Didn't TMZ think Don Imus should quit his MSNBC job for the same.

Posted at 12:05PM on Aug 26th 2008 by Memba

20. Hey "Fight Hate", love how you're fighting hate with hate. MLK and Ghandi would be proud.

Posted at 12:02PM on Aug 26th 2008 by Those who live in glass houses...

21. Hey "Those who live in glass houses... / No. 15." Why don't you try learning another language other than English and write comments in that language using perfect grammar and we will have a person proficient in that language judge you.

I apologize to all the rational, open-minded Americans if I offended them but I made it clear in my previous posts that my comment was only to make a few irrational Americans understand that words hurt and they are free. You will never get anywhere with them if you answer back in a normal rational way. I am not saying that I succeeded now but this the best way at least in my experience.

BTW, I see poor grammar in your comment too. I see many "born and raised here" Americans use "except" instead of "accept" all the time in their comments, emails etc. And these are not the only words that are misused. Why don't you pick on them. It is silly that people like you want to throw this "poor grammar" thing into everything as if that should scare us.

Posted at 12:01PM on Aug 26th 2008 by Sam

22. everything is not about racism. please stop using that excuse everytime you do something not right. you took an idea that wasn't yours. end of story, i'm sure that's not cool in India either...?

Posted at 12:04PM on Aug 26th 2008 by Ledbetter1212

23. Jeeze, somebody needs a personality. I'll bet your the life of the party "Fight Hate". Nothing worse than an angry Lib. It's like pissing off the Pillsbury dough boy, pissed off on the outside, but still soft and squishy inside.

Posted at 12:06PM on Aug 26th 2008 by ilovecelebritycrap

24. Sorry boi, but Clueless and those Jane Austen movie remakes DO credit Jane Austen. Now is that so hard to do? Now please don't compary Bollywood to Hollywood. Bollywood produces the campiest movies around, they hardly ever change the plot and it's full of lame dancing and high=pitched "signing." Another example of Hindi "creativity"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJRNyPK-lc

I don't have anything against Indians, but I stay clear of them because they love to argue, are extremely cheap, and they think they are smarter than everybody.

Posted at 12:13PM on Aug 26th 2008 by pimp

25. yes, poster #2 is ignorant and racist and makes me wanna puke. but so do you sam! so in order to counteract racism, you employ more racism? please enlighten me, how does that make any sense? and i'm not trying to sound ignorant, but if you are so offended by our customs and culture (having the freedom to date who we want, to leave our husbands if they're pieces of sh*t, and TO CHEERLEAD) then go back to your country where the culture doesn't offend you. i know if i was living in a country where i had serious issues with their beliefs and customs (such as the illegal but still used dowry system, infanticide of little girls because they're not boys, alienation of widows, etc.) THEN I WOULD GET OUT AND RETURN TO THE COUNTRY THAT I LOVE. this one. regardless, i understand you felt forced to comment and make a point, but you were not by any means forced to be equally as ignorant as the person you were arguing with.

Posted at 12:28PM on Aug 26th 2008 by bree

26. Grammar aside, and there were no grammitcal errors in "Those who live in glass houses'" post, Sam is an angry, angry person. I think Sam and Fight Hate (if not the same person) should move in together. Birds of a feather and all that rot...They probably profess to be liberal and open-minded when they are obviously far, far from that. They are hate mongers, just like those they profess to be railing against. Ghandi is rolling in his grave.

Posted at 12:29PM on Aug 26th 2008 by Sam is retarded

27. There's no need to get all racist over this particular, or any other reason for that matter. Although, the Indian Movie Industry has been flamed for being unoriginal and ripping off stuff from Hollywood, and even from movies in so many languages. This is just one of many, and the news regarding this one somehow managed to come up to the surface.

Posted at 12:54PM on Aug 26th 2008 by Jack

28. What's even worse is that because of a few racist people, the whole community is being trademarked and hated as being racist, when the rest are totally innocent.

Posted at 12:56PM on Aug 26th 2008 by Jack

29. #8 Joker.....TOO FUNNY...AHHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 1:30PM on Aug 26th 2008 by t

30. Has anyone seen the trailer?! It has no magic or anything. It shows a little boy fending off thieves or robbers, Home Alone style. Seriously, it looks like Home Alone! Plus, "A Comedy of Terrors" in the title kind of sets it apart from Harry Potter. But, it seems to be "only" a matter of the movie's name that the studio will fight about. The plot is totally different.
It really is funny that a magical movie from back in the day called Troll had a Harry Potter in it. LOL! Did they bother to chase down J.K.? Lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits. It's the way of the world.

Posted at 9:50PM on Aug 26th 2008 by Sasha

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