Is film "Barfi" a Copycat ?

Barfi is an Anurag Basu film which has created a lot of Buzz among the audience & has been selected for the Oscars. But do we know the fact? It is mainly a copy of many Hollywood films most of which are classics.

Barfi is mainly a love story between two especial people & has been selected for the Oscars. Nevertheless we are very proud of that. But we cannot deny the fact that it has been copied from various Hollywood classic films. The director has admitted that it is inspired from Charlie Chaplin but he did not mention the other names. We will now show you the total picture of Barfi.

The base of this Bollywood film Barfi has a strong resemblance with the Hollywood film Benny & Joon released in the year 1993 & the Korean film Oasis released in 2002. And not only this, one of the composition of Pritam in this movie has been copied collectively from the tune of Yann Tiersen from the movie Amelie released in the year 2001.

The scene where Ranbir woke up under a covered statue has been copied from Charlie Chaplin's City of Light released in the year 1931. And the scene where Ranbir tries to get rid of a sticky paper while putting up posters in Kolkata has been copied from an episode of Mr Bean named Back to School.

The scene where Ranbir entertains Priyanka by sticking papers on eyelids & lips has been copied from Mr Bean's Holiday which released in the year 2007. The scene where Ranbir chased by cops rides a bicycle through narrow lanes has been copied from Jackie Chan's Project A released in the year 1983. And the ladder scene by Ranbir Kapoor has been copied from Buster Keaton's Cops released in the year 1922.


And this is not all, the scene where Rupa Ganguly introduces Ilieana D'cruz to her former boyfriend & the scene where Priyanka Chopra snuggle up Ranbir in the hospital bed have been inspired from the movie The Notebook which released in 2004.

Barfi's excellent first week collection & its entry into the Oscars

Barfi collected 57.50 Cr nett in its first week as per as early estimates which is just excellent. During the weekdays Barfi was very strong & collected approximately 23.50 Cr nett. Wednesday was a holiday & the movie benefited from it but Thursday was a bandh & the movie suffered for that.

Although there was Bandh on Thursday the major collectors of Barfi that is Delhi & Mumbai cities which remained mainly unaffected from the Bandh show good collections of Barfi. The collection of Barfi in these two major cities mainly remain unaffected due to Bandh.

The first week collection of Barfi is the highest collection ever for a movie of this genre as it is not a masala entertainer as the movie got universal appeal from all over India & has been liked by mass audience.

Now let us take a look at the daily collection of Barfi in Delhi/UP. The collections are rock steady.

Friday - 1.82 Cr

Saturday - 2.49 Cr

Sunday - 2.90 Cr

Monday - 1.51 Cr

Tuesday - 1.22 Cr

Wednesday - 1.15 Cr

Thursday - 1.00 Cr

Barfi showed good jump in collection on wednesday since wednesday was holiday in different parts of the country & Thursday was Bandh all over India. Mainly Maharashtra & Karnataka were holiday on wednesday. The collection on Wednesday was approximately 7 Cr which is excellent. In Mysore the collection on wednesday were nearly twice the collection on Tuesday.

Barfi's entire weekend collection including Monday

The censor board gives U certificate to Barfi. Anurag Basu is very excited about it. His previous movies Murder, Gangster, Life in a metro all got A certificate & Kites got U/A certificate. The story of Barfi revolves around a deaf mute boy played by Ranbir Kapoor. The film also marks the debut of telegu actress Ileana D'Cruz in bollywood.

Barfi directed by Anurag Basu is a comedy film. Ranbir Kapoor is in the main lead. He plays a deaf, mute boy from Nepal. The movie was previously titled as Khamoshi but then the title was changed to Barfi. The starcast of the film consists of Ranbir Kapoor as Murphy Johnson also known as Ranbir Pratap Singh, Priyanka Chopra as Jhilmil Chatterjee, Ileana D Cruz as Shruti Ghosh/Sengupta, Rahul Garg, Saurabh Shukla, Sumona Charavarty, Bhola Raja Sapkota & Jishu Sengupta. The music has been composed by Pritam. The film is expected to take a Bumper opening at the Multiplexes of the Metros. 

Barfi collected huge in its first weekend. According to early estimates it has collected approximately 34 Cr nett in its first weekend. The film opened excellent in Metro Multiplexes on Friday but & the the multiplexes at other places which were lower on Friday picked up hugely on Saturday & Sunday.

By Sunday the film perfomed exceptionally well all over apart from few single screens accross the country.

The film was released in 700 theatres & nearly 1300 screens all over India & this type of collection with this type of release size is very good. The occupancy in the multiplexes were nearly 100% all over the country. Generally big openers have huge releases which vary from 2500 screens to 3500 screens, but releasing only on 1300 screens & collecting such huge is a great achievement.

If we go by the trending of the movie then the movie is sure to hold up well on weekdays as the mutiplexes will witness a very strong collection. This is the highest collection in the weekend for a Ranbir Kapoor starrer the last one was multistarrer Rajneeti which collected 33 Cr nett in its first weekend.

Barfi Movie Review - 3.5 Star

Life is a gift, a especial gift from GOD. We should not waste life. We should enjoy each & every second of life, each & every moment of life. We have received this type of messages from many earlier films like Anand, Kal Ho Na Ho etc. This is the main summary of Barfi. Rather, this is the main theme & moral of Barfi.

When we see handicapped people or people with physical dassabilities we think that they are very unhappy & they live in a dark world. But Barfi proved that it is totally wrong.

No genre can define Barfi as it only says that Life is precious & beautiful which in a true sense touches the chord of Heart. Barfi teaches us not waste any moment of life & live it just like a King. Barfi is mainly a love story of such a beautiful but physically challenged guy who always remains happy & his romance first with a classy & simple girl Shruti & then with an autistic girl whose name is Jhilmil.

In this movie Ranbir Kapoor plays the character of Barfi. His parents call him Murphy. He is a happy go lucky guy always ready to do something new & always plays pranks with ladies. He cannot speak nor he can listen anyone still he is very popular in Darjeeling.

He had relationship with two beautiful ladies in the movie. The first one is Shruti the character played by Ileana D Cruz & then Jhilmil the character played by Priyanka Chopra. In the mean course many sweet as well as bitter things happened in the life of Barfi which has changed his life upside down.

Anurag Basu is the director of the movie. He is a great storyteller. It is a very simple story & the credit of the movie lies within this simpleness. Barfi is a very confident & courageous guy, he is not violent. Barfi is all about love & sacrifice. The story is handled with great care & sensitivity.

Pritam has given the music of this movie. He again surpassed all the expectations. He has done a marvelous job. His songs are just like poetry, smoothes the ear. Two of the three main characters are speechless in the movie that is why the background score plays a very important role in this movie & Pritam has done that with utmost care. He has delivered one of his best creations in this movie. Ravi Verman is the cinematographer & he also deserves especial mention. The locations were so beautiful it only cools your eyes.

"Barfi" has very good First Day

Barfi has very very good first day. The collections are huge. The first day numbers are around 8.5 cr nett approximately. The collections at the multiplexes in the Metro areas are very good & that is why the numbers are so good.

The movie showed average collection in multiplexes outside Metro areas & the collection at single screens are also very low. If we compare the collection of Barfi with his last release Rockstar then the collection of Barfi is similar or better than Rockstar in Metro multiplexes but elsewhere the collection is lower.

The release count of Barfi is also less that is why the total collection of Barfi came down to around 1 crore lesser than that of Rockstar. The film will turn out to be a success because of its good business in the Metro multiplexes & if the collection in the multiplexes outside Metros & single screens show a good jump on saturday then the film will be a huge hit & will run comfortably for 2 weeks at the Boxoffice.

The places where Barfi did good business are Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Bangalore & Kolkata & the places where the collections are lower are UP, Bihar, CI, Gujrat & Rajasthan. In the multiplexes the business of Barfi is the third highest in this year after Ek Tha Tiger & Agneepath. The PVR & Inox multiplexes scored even better than Agneepath. In mumbai the occupancy level was 85% which is next to Ek Tha Tiger & Agneepath. Ek Tha Tiger collected 17 - 18 Cr at multiplexes on day 1 & Agneepath collected  12.5 Cr in multiplexes on day 1. The first day collection of Barfi at multiplexes is approximately 7.5 Cr. The single screen collections were very low as the release was limited. If we compare the collection of Barfi & Rockstar in the multiplexes of Gurgaon then the Barfi numbers are higher.

PVR Ambience

Barfi! - 6,81,836

Rockstar - 6,19,550

PVR MGF

Barfi! - 5,86,533

Rockstar - 4,37,922

PVR Sahara

Barfi! - 1,76,205

Rockstar - 2,20,762

DT City

Barfi! - 3,73,277

Rockstar - 3,42,103

DT Mega

Barfi! - 1,90,035

Rockstar - 1,90,379

DT Star

Barfi! - 2,38,706

Rockstar - 2,49,166

Big

Barfi! - 2,44,554

Rockstar - 2,85,758

SRS Omax

Barfi! - 1,69,957

Rockstar - 1,62,825

SRS Wedding

Barfi! - 1,73,070

Rockstar - 1,16,323