Yours' faithfully. Review on Qayamat

To

George Bush

President of the USA

White house

Washington DC

USA

Dear Sir,

Let me introduce myself first, Myself Harry Baweja, head of Baweja films pvt. ltd., a company which produces films in Bollywood (the world's biggest film industry in terms of numbers of films, of course). We have of late been worried about the allegations of piracy levelled against our industry by some of the western authors. I know sir that you have more pressing matters on hand so I would not take much of your time. I write this letter on behalf of my fellow producers here.

The allegations levelled against us that we make films on their script without permission and without compensating them. Well sir in such a big (Unorganised & newly recognised) industry it is difficult to avoid such incursions and more so it would be impossible to dish out 1000 movies per year and every one of them with a 100% original script. Pardon me but even with 200-300 movies hollywood finds it difficult. Now you must be thinking that in that case what is the need to make so many films. Well sir the logic is simple to cater to the choices of some 200 million people hollywood produces 200 odd films in an year so with 1000 million it means 1000 films after all we are one-sixth of all the humanity.

Also sir most of the allegations are exxagerated by journalists or by rival producers who were planning a film on the same film, sorry script. For example, it was alleged that the movie was an Indian Cape Fear just because its climax was shot in a ferry and the villain was a psycho. Not only that, a murderer acts insane to escape punishment and they say it was Primal Fear. Even that was only half the film, they had 90 minutes of film after that. Sir these are genral ideas which can occur to two persons, Like my recent release Qayamat, just because tourist are kidnapped in an Old jail from where terrorists threaten to poison water of a city they say it is copy of Rock. I know there are similarities but it is beween Romeo & Julietand every second love film.

My film Qayamat is also a victim of this prejudice. Let me tell you how the film was concieved. After 911 (accept my condolances, god bless those souls) terrorism was the buzzword. In months after that the threat of chemical & biological weapons was very real. So I thought what if the terrorists get hold of these, The rest was usual terrorist stuff. Kidnap some people ask for ransom and go to pakistan. But the catch was how would you survive such a weapon yourself, by engaging them from far away, using missiles. Thus the idea of an island or something like that in the sea. Idea of jail came up from the neccesity of keeping so many people locked. And for the rescue who know's a jail better, someone who has escaped from it. You don't have to watch a hollywood film to come up with that. Yeah it sounds very similar to Rock and it also had these things but it didn't had a major role for hero's love interest (and half a dozen or so songs, as a matter of fact I added one more song in the third week which incidently didn't feature any of the two main artists). But the media makes up an issue if we send DVD's of ''Rock'' instead of bound scripts, we're just saving few preacious reams of papers.

Also these things are not entirely in hollywood's disadvantage. Consider the fact that india has the world's highest enlish speaking population with a bulging middle class but still india does not account for even 1% of hollywood's revenues. Even in India it does not account for more than 5% of total gross. It's not because the films are not good or indians do not watch english movies (Titanic grossed 20 million Dollars in India in english in a limited release). It's because they're not ready for them. That's where these similarities come to your help.

Like my film Qayamat, it was essentially a hero hammering out villans with his bare hands, stuff we( & hollywwood of course) have been making for time immemorial and thanks to Matrix, we now do it in slow motion, 10 feet in the air for no apparent reason and we get pat in the backs for coming of age in action scenes. Not that we never did impossibly stupid stunts before, our Mithunda (Mithun Chakravarty) has been slicing bullets, reflecting bullets, catching bullets (not to mention throwing them back with his hand acing as AK47) and has been dodging bullets fired at him since the time when Keanu reaves was just a replacement. But this time 'thanks to the copy tag' even the english movie literates appreatiated us (we even got a public finance company to finance us). So sometimes these kinds of rumours are deliberately spread by us to fool the audiences.

So please don't take note of these reports and let us flood the audience so many so called holywood rip-offs so that one day the audience finally decides to watch the originals instead, or Hollywood gets the idea of how to tweak its film to suit billion indian people and make millions as bollywood reduces to just nother film industry swept by hollywood storm. BTW we would still work together after all you will need cheap directors for the 1000 odd films you're going to produce.;-)

Yours'Faithfully

Harry Baweja

P.S. I sent this letter to you as I did not know who to send it in Hollywood as I have a little knowledge about hollywood or how it works. So please forward it to relevent personnel.