Fight Club
Bollywood is jumping on the the remake bandwagon again, this time with Fight Club which come complete with all the singing and dancing that we’ve come to know and love from this part of the world.
An exhilarating journey of four friends – Vicky, Karan, Somil and Diku – who, in a constant endeavor to help each other, get entangled in a web of incidents – some romantic, many funny, and all testing the extremes of their friendship. These four friends, who could be mistaken for brothers, offer an example of wonderful camaraderie, all throughout a journey with numerous highs, twists and turns. This journey is further accelerated when Vicky stumbles upon the design of a fight club, a club which gives people a chance to settle scores with their enemies in a unique atmosphere of fun, action and excitement. Amidst the on-going fun and fists, Vicky and Karan get entangled in affairs of the heart and mind with Anu and Shonali which thicken/tighten the group’s bonds… and send them off to New Delhi to look after the “Crossroads” nightclub, which is in the eye of a storm created by Delhi’s most dangerous gangs… In that ongoing, ever-increasing mêlée, ex-kingpin Anna’s brother, Mohit, gets killed, filling Anna with vengeance… situations take an ugly turn… time calls for a clash… Dinesh , a merciless rival, masterminds a killing plan, with his brother, Sandy, giving him strong company. At this, Team Fight Club calls in their ace, Sameer, a bouncer, to tilt the balance in their favor. In this puffed up atmosphere of fists and fights, Sameer finds love in the name of Komal. Now, in a strange new city, these five boys from Mumbai experience love, passion – and deadly dons…
David Fincher has never made a film like this.
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WTF is this? I thought American studios made some horrible movies…
Anybody who put’s down the talent of Bollywood should have the brain checked to see if it is still inside their head…LOL…It’s about time Bollywood makes a great movie out of what was a horribly bad Hollywood film. Bollywood will always make better films because they have the color, charisma, love, song and dance with sensational musical scores that western films always seem to lack. Bollywood can also take something as horrible as Fight Club and actually make a real movie out of it that won’t be the total garbage and pure violence the Hollywood version was. Unlike the original Fight Club with it’s vulgar bombastic soundtrack and monochromatic lifeless cast of fighting machine drones that I hated I will be waiting in line to see Bollywood’s version of Fight Club. Finally a real Fight Club movie that has a real story! Bollywood, please release more movies in America. We are starving for some real cinema worth seeing especially after all the awful Hollywood versions of a romantic comedy and romantic movies that are just so lifeless. We need some real romantic movies by the talent of Bollywood producers! Thankyou Bollywood!!!
What the hell? Is this some kind of parody? Perfectlymadebirds, you’ve got to be kidding. The American version was priceless, and this looks like a comic book. Ridiculous.
Holy Fighting Cows! (heh,heh…the irony there) “Fight Club – USA Edition” is a movie you need to sit and watch 3 or 4 times to really begin to understand what’s going on. I am fairly confident that I Have “Fight Club – Bollyland Edition” figured out just from that first trailer. Allow me to digress – Diku, our phallicly named super stud will dance in the foreground while while the slightly effeminately named Karan, Samil and Vicky will mirror his awesome Danny Terrio moves in the background. They will sing lyrics of burning love and desire over tamborines and techno beats.
The object of this pent up male virility will be dancing (again in the foreground) in a totally different scene along with about 40 background dancers doing their best Janet Jackson side to side head wiggle thing. Clothing and tapestries of brightly colored fabrics will blur into a mush of video haze as your brain begins to shut down non-essential functions in an effort to save itself from the high octave bubble gum singing.
Once Diku gets his true love cornered alone, she will be elusive and coy till he feigns anger and rejection, at which point the roles will change. This goes on back and forth for 8 or 9 scenes until they finally achieve symbolic coitus and are joined by all background dancers in a orgiastic dancing frenzy (all totally synchronized) across a flowery meadow or other fertile environment.
Tyler Durden has a cameo in the fourth scene as the guy running the samosa cart.
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hey i think its a nice film u kno!!!coz its not easy to come up with gud ideas…they might ave taken this name from the hollywood film but their idea is theirs and i think its gonna be cool…let see….but ya the peepz who says its shit should try to make a film for their own selves if they dont like the bolly wood eforts…so….to hell with those peepz but the film looks cool.
this movie is as rediculous as clown shoes.
For those who havn’t seen the original usa ‘Fight club’, i implore you to watch it first, at least twice, absorb it’s philosophy and the beauty of its ideas, then come back, and waste 2 hours of your life on this film, that is if you can tolerate sitting through such putrid, adolescent slush.
THIS IS NOT A FIGHT CLUB REMAKE. This is only a bollywood movie with the same title. The people who did the trailers took excerpts where the characters says similar things to Tyler Durden but I suspect it was done to make bollywood lood stupid and hollywood brilliant. There is no connection in the two movies except for the title
Vitoc. There are lots of remakes coming out of Hollywood that also have nothing in common with the original film other than the title.
The reason this is done – in both Bollywood and in Hollywood – is to attract interest in a film that people would otherwise be unaware of. And it works – for the first couple of weeks in February, this page was getting more hits than any other page on the site.
Simple, the HOLLYWEIRD version is garbage. The Bollywood version will be true cinematic splendor. Need I say more?
Adeel and Sana, you know quality like I do when you see it unlike the rest of these uneducated people in this thread. BOLLYWOOD WILL DO WHAT HOLLYWOOD NEVER COULD DO!!!!! They will make a great film out of what was a Hollyweird piece of crap!
rofl @ Perfectlymadebirds, how true; adeel and sana have embodied all that is true art. The crux of the matter is that people who would enjoy this 3hour waste of time would never be capable of understanding the genius behind the original FightClub (USA), and the people who understood and appreciate the original fight club(USA) would take this movie as nothing but a joke.
I, for one, would probably watch this trash, fast forwarding thruout to complete it within an hour because, and only because i am an indian after all, and i need a regular dosage of mindless gibberish which can only be heard in corner chai shops in Delhi, or alternatively in a bulk of bollywood films.
(Who remembers the movie Dus?; and the corelation between it and the title song ‘dus bahane’)
Jack’s embarassment, you are so digustingliy pathetic. If you are Indian as you claim which I do not beleive for one moment you would not make such comments about Bollywood films. Hollywood has infact somehow managed to get the Oscars to ban entries of Bollywood films because they know Bollywood would kick their ass in the awards.
seen this it’s a gd film but yeah it’s like story start and before u know ended 3/4 gd actions fight i’ve seen thought..
i did like the music when the tuff guy come rofl..
anyone maybe know whats the name of this movie..
EVIdence, yes they did a great job especially on the music. I will probably watch it again.
Unfortunately as of yesterday it was discovered that a local high school student in our town started a real fight club in inspiration to the American Hollywood version released in 1999. The discovery was the result of 16 year old kid being so brutally beaten he later died in a hospital. Apparently this kid’s fight club had been going on for years out in the desert before it was discovered by the police as a result of his death. Very sad.
“Simple, the HOLLYWEIRD version is garbage.”
At least the Hollywood version was based on the book by Chuch Palahniuk. That’s why it was weird to you. The book was even weirder. This movie can’t even be compared to the Hollywood version because it’s not even the same story or in the same genre. You might as well compare Star Wars to The Santa Clause.
If you’re into Bollywood movies, then this is for you. If you’re into movies that make you think and if you don’t like musicals, then I’d say the the US version is better for you.
I agree BBB. I’m surprised no one on thsi page has yet made mention of the original Palahniuk book. It’s a thrilling, layered, complex novel. David Fincher’s 1999 film remained fairly true to the book, but streamlined it for the medium.
As an Indian myself, I have no problem admitting that Bollywood produces its fair share of drivel. With more that 1,200 films produced per year, you’re bound to have some flops.
This film seems to be completely unrelated to the Palahniuk novel, and consequently to the 1999 film. I highly doubt it is a “remake” of any sort, or even an adaptation of the book. If it was, I’m willing to bet Palahniuk would be hot on the case of the director, the producer, and (most definitely) the screenwriter. It seems to be, as Vitoc mentioned, a completely unrelated film, with a similar title – not a remake, not an adaptation of the original novel.
BBB and Luckrock, while I believe some of your points are valid in my opinion Bollywood produces far better movies than the usual Hollywood stuff. So what if it has nothing to do with the original novel. The fact is, it is a lighter movie that does not make people “think” to go out and kill others because they were “thinking” about it when they saw it on film. The problem with Hollywood these days is has got so graphic that it has blurred the line between reality and fiction whilst Bollywood still keeps those boundaries well defined with generally charismatic, colorful, cultural wonders of cinema to delight the senses and abound us in celebrations of life through song and dance. Something that modern Hollywood dramas and romance now sadly lack but once had in the days of their musicals back up until the 1960s. Now the way I see it today’s Hollywood is all about commercials in movie theaters, close zoom ins on product placement, and fervor on graphic violence so real that it is a travesty. The good things Hollywood now lacks or once made was the musicals, sci-fi, and family movies that critics frequently put down so they give horrid movies like the Hollywood version Fight Club awards undeserving. So the next time you feel Hollywood makes you think and Bollywood does not, I would rethink just that those comments.
I never leave comments on a site…but I couldn’t help myself after reading PerfectlyMadeBirds idiotic comments. Unfortunately, I am born into a very prestigious bollywood family – and I admit to all that these films are horrendous. Even the directors and producers don’t enjoy their films…they feed the masses shit because they keep gulping it down and asking for more helpings. Bollywood is for the rich, supercilious, in-house families that breed the business instead of searching for creative talent. Bollywood is a disgrace to Indian arts…AND is an embarrasement to the rest of the world!
Guju, You probably don’t even know anything about your own culture anymore because you have been overbloated with all that Hollywood S**t otherwise you would not make such terrible comments about your own movie industry. It’s people like you that keep eroding Indian culture away so someday there will be a Gap Store, Walmart and a Starbucks at ever corner made possible by people like you……….and ofcorse who will know what Indian culture ever was or posable care. It’s not western influence that gnaws away at Indian culture, it’s people like you from within who gnaw away at your own culture. Bollywood may not be the prime example of Indian culture but it is certainly a great part of Indian culture like many aspects that has been around long before you were ever born that people like you hate so much. Very sad indeed.
One thing I do agree with you though is that Bollywood is not the prime of Indian arts but it is far better than any of the Hollywood counterparts I have watched. Like any industry there is always failed films, but many good ones too even Hollywood occasionally still makes a good one. It’s just that Hollywood was much better pre-1960 in the times of musicals, sci-fi, fantasy, romances and children movies.
I applaud your patriotism…but Westernization is a reality. India is a rapidly growing economy and eventually there will be a demand for more thought-proving films.
Indian culture still heavily exists in music, dances, paintings, religion, language…etc Films are meant to provoke meaning coupled with images & words…It is a Changing Art-Form. I have studied in the States; and I’ll tell you the secret of a good movie. “SHOW, DON’T TELL”. Less dialogue and more imagery to capture the feeling – that is what makes a poignant film.
I have denounced my family business (which is a huge film empire that I would rather leave anonymous). All I have to say is that I am ashamed of the innerworking of a production house: directors aim movies toward a certain demographic only to generate revenue. They FORCE films through insipid plot outlines, cheap dialogue, overdramatic and underdeveloped scripts, and the occasional “song and dance” so that your mind fades to non-existence. Eventually, the IQ level among the destitute will rise above room temperature. When this happens, we will see a stronger middle class that will demand more intellectual films (like Monsoon Wedding)
These are some films that I strongly recommend any film critic to watch:
City Of God – Brazilian Film
Amores Perros – Mexican Film
Requiem For A Dream
Crash
Hotel Rwanda
American Beauty
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Sleepers
A River Runs Through It
Shawshank Redemptions
House of Sand & Fog
About Schmidt
In the Name of the Father
In the Bedroom
The Good Girl
As Good As It Gets
Cast Away
Taxi Driver
The Graduate
Amadeus
Quills
Fresh
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
…and of course Fight Club!!!
Thankyou Guju. Monsoon Wedding is one of my favorites but I have to say Koi Mil Gaya and Lagaan is probably a couple of my most favorites and quite well made in my opinion. As for the rest of what you say I agree with you for the most part but imagine if all there was westernization and the East someday disappeared into the sands of time. Along with that would go eastern ideas, thought, eastern fasion and fare and most art forms. We will be an uni-thinking society devoid of our ancient roots and past, our charisma and our heritage to breath brillance towards a ever more spectacular future. Diversity would seize to exist and everything where ever you went would all be same. It would be a very sad imbalanced world. I want you to look around you and contemplate fully how the world is rapidly reshaping itself including the individaul you are. Keep in mind western societies owe it existence to the East because if the East had not existed there would be nothing. The East is where the seedings of humanity began. The East and the West are needed to insure balance, fresh ideas and thought but I must reiterate that one cannot exist without the other for if one tries to overpower the other…………well I guess that’s the end of the biggest story their ever was……….Humanity’s Epic.
Ok seriously.. what the hell is wrong with you perfectlymade? is this some kind of parody.. bollywood kills hollywood movies. Want to see another example of horrible rip-off? watch The killer which is remake of COllateral.
To me Bollywood is like a thief who steals the original art and then sell it in black market with its name imprinted on it.
Like you, lowlife who steels my name and them makes fun of it. Why would I listen to a dumbass like you. Oh please……………
I agree with everyone! PerfectlyMade – you have to be smoking crack. Or maybe your mom spoon-fed you too much pan parag as a baby. Or maybe…just maybe, you are Salman Khan in disguise?
How can you possibly write this crap (quoting PerfectlyMade): “Hollywood has infact somehow managed to get the Oscars to ban entries of Bollywood films because they know Bollywood would kick their ass in the awards.”
You must be the dumbest person alive. The Oscars don’t take Bollywood films for a reason. It is not a conspiracy to shelter good films, you stupid shit. It is because…Hindi films suck!!! All of us have come to accept this sad fact. You clearly have no concept of quality films – so just Shut Up!!! And stop posting these asinine comments!!! Moronic People like you give justification for Hindi Producers to keep making these god-awful movies.
KILLTHEBIRD is Obviously is a completely pagal Hollywood producer to intimidated by the likes of Bollywood. I rest my case.
It’s probably worth pointing out that the reason that more Bollywood films don’t turn up at the Oscars is that the Oscars ceremony is an AMERICAN awards ceremony that exists, primarily, to celebrate AMERICAN films.
Although some some British – and other non-American – films do get nominated, these are – and will always be – in the minority.
There’s no conspiracy and it’s nothing to do with quality. It’s simply down to the fact that national film awards tend to celebrate the national films first.
Paul, you are about the most sensible person that has spoken on this thread so far and that would make more sense than the usual “I hate Bollywood” garbage comments I am always keep hearing from the other commenters.
Paul, you try to make a good point. Too bad, it doesn’t jive with the facts
This year, the crop of nominated films includes several languages other than English, such as “Letters from Iwo Jima” and “Apocalypto.”
Best Picture will probably go to “Babel” which spans several countries and languages and produced an Oscar nomination for Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi as well as for Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Mexican supporting actress Adriana Barraza.
Other international nominees include Benin-born Djimon Honsou for “Blood Diamond,” Spain’s Penelope Cruz, nominated for best actress for her role in “Volver,” and — vying in the same category — British stars Judi Dench for “Notes on a Scandal,” Kate Winslet for “Little Children” and front-runner Helen Mirren for her title role in “The Queen.”
Look at the 2005 nominations – Catalina Sandino Moreno, of Colombia, for the film “Maria Full of Grace,” British actress Sophie Okonedo in 2004 for “Hotel Rwanda” and Iranian-born Shohreh Aghdashloo in 2003 for “House of Sand and Fog.”
Let us not forget about “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”, (purely Japanese film had swept the oscars)
The sad truth is that Indian films dont even make it to the best foreign film category. I’m sorry, but as of now…the Quality of Hindi films really dont make the cut…its the truth!
Indian Guru,
Of the 58 films that have an Oscar nomination, you have managed to name eight. And, quite frankly, you are really stretching reality when you try to claim that either “Letters from Iwo Jima”, “Apocalypto” or “Blood Diamond” are anything other than American films – all three are produced entirely by American production companies.
That leaves you five films out of 58 – three of which are British (which makes it easier for an English speaking American Academy).
Far from disproving what I said, I think that this underlines my point. The Oscars are an American awards ceremony and, inevitably, will primarily recognise American films. And there is nothing wrong with this.
Please understand here that I am not making any claims about Bollywood films here. Some are a lot of fun, some are rubbish – which is something that you can say about the output of any country.
What I am saying is that the it is not possible to make any meaningful comparisons between different countries’ film industries based on a ceremony like the Oscars.
all of you supporting the movie are retards.
the book rocked, and so did the us version.
the bollywood version sucked BIG TIME.
and yes, i am a proud, patriotic indian.
but that does not mean that my love for my country and its vibrant movie industry extends to pathetic, abysmal insults to the film fraternity; bolly fight club has no sense, no meaning, and certainly none of the charm of palahniuk’s and fincher’s fight clubs.
PERFECTLYMADEBIRDS aka salman khan: being a movie mad, PATRIOIC indian does not mean appreciating a stupid, idiotic film like bolly fight club.
if you really want to watch a REAL bollywood movie, i suggest you watch a hrishikesh mukherjee/satyajit ray/b.r. chopra/yash chopra/ramesh sippi/raj kapoor movie and SHUT UP.
PERFECTLY MADERETARDBIRDS and KILLTHEBIRD: both of you should sit with PERFECTLYMADEBIRDS and watch one of the aforementioned classic directors’ movies.
i just hope i don’t live to see the day i have to hear of a bollywood version of survivor, complete with song, dance, and corny dialogues. (!)
I guess I just had a hard time relating to the Hollywood version roach-ak and am partial to Bollywood to begin with. As far as this other movie goes, I want to see it but the link you gave me is no good. And yes, you are right about Bollywood imitating Hollywood films. Bollywood has too much of it’s own creative fervor to lower to standards of imitating Hollywood. India already has enough westernizing going on as it is without having to make duplicate western movies already made. I cannot stand Survivor and an imitated version of the show surely would be worse. I will watch this other movie gladly.
As said so often before, the fact of the matter is that people are trying to argue merits between two movies that share nothing beyond their name. I believe it was BBB who said that you “might as well compare Star Wars to The Santa Clause.”
(this next part may contain spoilers for the US version–as if you guys haven’t seen it already…)
One of the appeals (for me, at least) of the US Fight Club was that it presented a disturbing, nihilistic outlook at reality that truly was thought-provoking. Tyler Durden believed in nothing. He believed that the value of an individual was worth no more than the dirt he stood upon. He was a character that inspired loyalty, yet rejected it at the same time. He even lived almost like a modern day monk–having nothing beyond what was needed to sustain him. The Fight Club was only the beginning for him. It was powered by his belief in the power of the primeval man–if you remember, there was a scene where he talked about his vision of stalking elk around the ruins of the Rockefeller center, of climbing wrist thick vines wrapping around the Sears tower, of tiny figures laying strips of venisen on an abandoned superhighway.
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Let me say personally that I don’t agree with any of the ideas presented by the character of Tyler Durden. But before seeing this movie, I had never even been presented such ideas, and I walked away deeply thinking about this alien new world view I had seen. The fact that Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter had played their roles so convincingly well was part of what took a deep plot and made it into an exceptional film.
I haven’t seen the Bollywood “Fight Club: Members Only”, so I may come off as a bit partisan. In reality, I just felt the need to defend a film that I loved, even if I didn’t agree with it. If I do see the Bollywood Fight Club (which I probably will someday), I won’t go in expecting to see Tyler, the Narrator (called “Jack” by some), or Marla. However, I will go in hoping to see a good film.
I guess what it comes down to is this: PERFECTLYMADEBIRDS prefers Bollywood films. I spent the first 18 years of my life in Pennsylvania, and I’ve spent the last three living just outside New York City. Obviously, I’m going to have a slant toward Hollywood films. When you’re experiencing the arts (such as film), there will never be a “this is better than this”. There can only ever be “I like this, you like that.”
After more time realizing what people in this forum were trying to point out to me, it was not ever about the movie Fight Club, it is about the principle of Bollywoo’d demise of coping films from Hollywood and Lollywood’s dying art. Basically the eastern film industries have lost confidence in their own cultural values and expressions because of the over westernizing of these lands they feel compelled they must copy film and art too without innovating their own unique ideas anymore. Now I see why so many Indians here are crying out loud about was is going, and I am truly sorry for ever missing your point that you trying to make. Let Hollwood do what it does best with it’s offerings to the world because you are right, for the most part Hollywood these days still comes up with it’s own ideas, but Bollywood must once again also drawn on it’s own ideas.
“This is a phenomenon that has been going on for the last few decades because India wants to westernize their country so badly on all levels by coping and mimicking everything from entertainment, fashion, food, building design and so on that comes from the west, so why not copy Hollywood too? After all I guess India culture in all it’s unique greatness is inferior to that of popular western culture which I personally disagree with the whole eastern culture inferiority complex and it’s denial by the populace when people are reminded of what they are doing to their own societies. Believe in Indian culture and go back to the days of the real Bollywood greats. This kind of westernizing everything to modernize in my opinion is culturally self destructive but also undermines eastern societies’ own unique ideas of creative expression offerings to the greater world.”
I think you got it, PerfectlyMadebirds!!! Nobody probably reads these posts now…as this seems to be an old forum. But I just saw perfectlymadebirds change his views over time. Only if we can get every indian to see the light…we may be able to save our arts.
Bollywood films must revert back to their roots…instead of “Feeding the masses”. The problem is precisely what Guju said: “Bollywood is about the rich, supercilious, in-house families that breed the business instead of searching for creative talent” The sheer diversity of American films is the reason for their success. There are horrible American films too, but there are so many original, thought provoking films that compensate for the bad ones. Moreover, American producers don’t necessarily NEED the money for a “safe, revenue generating” film. On the other hand, Indian producers don’t risk such ventures because they do NOT expand (like Miramax, Fox, Dreamworks, Disney…etc) Instead, they keep the films In-House and continue to fool the public with garbage dialogue, senseless stories, and comical song & dance routines.
Bollywood has become so monotonous with their movies. Post 1990 – it had been strictly love stories. Why? Before that, villian & hero action movies. Why? It is an insult to see India’s culture be associated with this Rubbish…we need to start making movies that reflect political, economic, & social views. One day, a poignant film will be made about the Hindu & Muslim conflict (a film distributed from a major production house)…and when that day comes, I hope the producer is Indian and NOT American.
I have never seen a bollywood film and no one has ever recommended one to me but what I do know is that a movie is meant to entertain and the US Fight Club did just that for me and more. yes it may brainwash some people but I believe it’s worth the risk I know personally I will not be scared to watch a movie for a reason like that. Plus I do believe Tyler has some valid points but like any human he is flawed as well. so please perfectlymadebirds try not to be so closed minded to your own culture it hurts me to see people think like that because your not allowing yourself to enjoy something quite wonderful and I know Indian culture is more than dancing singing and colorful clothes. If you must know I’m an Americanized Mexican so judge my comment all you want but also know I am an open minded individual. Like Tyler says “You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank, you’re not the car you drive, you’re not the contents of your wallet, you’re not your f_ing khackis” I’m not American or mexican in the sense of who I am inside, do you understand. but anyways US Fight Club was great and I’ve chosen to not over indulge on culture I’m just me not my ancestors. What about you?
by the way David Fincher did great directing with fight club did you see those camera angles scene changes music placement hidden Tyler pics etc. The acting was excellent as well as an actor myself I know how hard it is to play these characters I’ve tried in theatre believe me they did 99.9% I dont give anybody 100 theres always room for positive change.
bollywood movies are nice and cheeky, that is all i have to say *,’