There are some stereotypes attached with every race/religion/nationality. Like :

1. Americans - Can over-pay Asians (we <3 USA)
2. British - Can speak in an accent you’d like to copy but can’t (Yes, we tried!!)
3. Russians - Can buy football clubs :P
4. French - Can Kiss.
5. Chinese - Can do without google (dayam!)
6. Indians - Can copy all of the above.. cheaply!!!

That’s right. About time we accept the fact that the mega talent we’ve been blessed by is the art of plagiarism. And I’m not suggesting that we should be embarrassed about it. Not one bit. Just that we could be a little more classier. You know what I mean?!

NO??

In India we may not know a byte about Software, but we have the most flourishing I.T industry. How? We’re good at reproducing what someone else has done in a short period of time and in the cheapest way possible. That’s what makes us in demand in the rest of the world.

So, this time Whackk decided to glorify this under-rated talent of us Indians. Here goes..

Bollywood

Ok so Hollywood dudes make good movies. They’re good at it.

We copy them. We’re good at it.

If you want a better idea of how talented we are at this art, check this out.

Guiness says we have the most number of movies churned out from our industry every year. Lemme break it down for you :
What we basically do is get inspired from some 1000 hollywood movies every year. Then we ofcourse have the French/ Germans/ Japs and Koreans to copy from, lest they feel left out. After this long process of indianising phoren maal, South India and the Bongs scream “ME TOO!”.

The count goes up by several hundreds now, thanks to inspired re-makes. Heck, now they’ve even started re-making old bollywood stuff which itself was inspired (read : blatantly copied) by some other hollywood movie.

And they say Bollywood is not professional. Ha!

Movie - Stars

When we copy something we don’t just let it show in our work, oh no! We make it a part of ourselves, our soul , out personality. How else would you explain the fixation of our celebs following into the footsteps of some successful firang.

Like, why do you think Raja Chowdhary acts like so psycho? Simple, he’s a Charlie Sheen wannabe.

Similarly,

1. Pamela Anderson - Ayesha Takia (ahem!)
2. Paril Hilton - Riya Sen (ahem! again)
3. Nicole Kidman - Rekha ( ageless b[otox]eauties)
4. Johnny Depp - Amir Khan (probably too generous a comparison, but both are perfectionists and kings of disguise)
5. Charlie Chaplin - Raj Kapoor (obvious mannerisms)
6. Arnold Schwazzerersfsdfneger ( Spellcheck gave up) - Sunny Deol ( biceps, chest, violence, handpumps... ok, that last bit was purely desi)

You get the drift.

T.V

Once we conquered Hollywood there was no looking back. We would soon move on to lesser valued things like NASA/CIA/FBI/Education system etc, but first we had to take over the much more important T.V industry.
When the Indian Junta was busy watching Fauji and Chitrahaar on DD, someone very high up in the hierarchy looked at the west and said to himself, “We’d sell more if we dumb down our people a little more. Just like the Americans.”
A few years later :

India TV and MTV Roadies make me wonder why T.V was invented in the first place?
Raghu would answer it somewhat like : “Bhos**ke, Mad**ch**, Tere baap ka kya jaata hai BH**C***. Prove yourself first. It’s about respect Ch**iye.”
Ok sir! Sorry Sir! Galti ho gayi!
Raghu : “Respect Lav**, Respect!!”
How respect fits in a sentence with all the above expletives is somewhat beyond me.

We have copied every possible reality show made in the west. Roadies being one of the rare original ones (dayam!).

T.V Personalities

The Indian T.V industry is basically a wannabe bollywood industry. They wanna be as big and glamorous as bollywood. Even if they have to do the exact same blunders of copying the west.
“If it gets us a movie, so be it.”
And so we have T.V stars who’s characters/actions/style will bear a stark resemblance to some firangi actor/actress. Don’t believe me? Chew on this :

1. Katie Price - Rakhi Sawant ( Loud, controversial, dumb, silicon)
2. Charlie Sheen - Raja Chowdhary (keede zyaada hain na)
3. Simon Cowell(American Idol) - Anu Malik (Indian Idol) (both equally hated)

We could mention plenty more. But now the Indian in me is getting a little embarrassed.

Music

The amount of music us Indians have copied is magnanimous. It will probably make a list longer than sugar charged kid's christmas wishlist. Whatever copying we do, we ( = Anu Malik) generally do from the west. But along came Mr. Can-You-See-Me-Behind-The-Beard Pritam and started lifting songs from the middle east. Now he judges in shows like Desi Kurkure Rock On MTV Bring It On Beats. Enough punishment, that is.

This section can never end without the honourable mention of the very, very creatively named ‘A Band Of Boys’. Trying their best to imitate the western gay boy bands like the Backstreet Boys and Boyzone, they went on to gain moderate success, but mostly ended up gaining the tag of an epic fail.

Oh and did you know they have a member named Chin2. [ Wondering why? :P]

Mumbai - Shanghai

This is the mother of all dudly nakals. One minister from the gallis of Ghatkopar, after years of jhol, managed to go to Shanghai once.
Minister : “Tukhhi aayichi. Apna Mumbai ko aisa banaya toh public khush. Aur itna paisa bhi khaane ko milega.”
And born was the slogan, Mumbai to be made to look like Shanghai by 2020(plus minus 100 years). How are Mumbai and Shanghai going to be similar, check out the comparison : 

IPL - EPL

How were we ever going to leave sports behind? Bollywood and cricket are the two biggest money minting crazes in this country. Plagiarism in Bollywood is there for all to see (see below for more). Cricket got it’s much needed inspiration from the EPL (or similar European football leagues). Everything remained the same, the club format, the money, the hype. But if it were all so well copied then how would we still be called bad-copy-kings. In comes the cheerleaders, the sponsored sixes and fours, tampering with the game’s format (strategic timeouts) and what do we have... The I.P.L.

Walmart - Big Bazaar

We just could not resist this. Such a blatant copy. Walmart is the one stop for all the Americans’ needs. Big Bazaar is quickly moving in that direction. Whispers about their quality and service have always been around, but they still work. Big Bazaar though now gives a sabzi mandi a good run for its money in terms of the crowd and cheap stuff. But that part was always expected in our country.

So now that we’ve gone public with our not-so-secret talent I hope the world starts respecting us a bit more. More importantly, I hope we have a better self image. Oh and did i mention about the supercool Blackberry lookalike phone in the black market called Blackcherry. These Chinese are going wild only! haha