10 popular Bollywood movies that are a remake of their Hollywood counterparts

The Bollywood movie, just like the Hollywood musical, is about a man who when he brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too. While the Hindi movie, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini, is an iconic film, the Hollywood movie won an Oscar for its music.

Aamir Khan and Manisha Koirala's super romantic film directed by Indra Kumar was based on the Hollywood film An Affair To Remember. Mann, however, is an indigenous version of the latter, improvised with a climax scene different from the original movie. Two people, who are engaged to someone else, meet on a cruise and fall in love. They then decide to meet at a pre-determined location six months later. However, a mishap changes the course of the story. While the 1957 film, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, ended vaguely, the Indian version gave a lot more backstory to the characters.

Baazigar, a film that established Shah Rukh Khan as an actor with impeccable range and also the star he is, was inspired by a Hollywood film remade twice before. In A Kiss Before Dying, a college student obsessed with the idea of being rich, dates a heiress. When she becomes pregnant and informs him that her father will take away her share of inheritance, he resorts to murder and stages it like a suicide. Her twin sister, then investigates the case. Baazigar, also starring Kajol and a debutante Shilpa Shetty, made SRK's character a cold-blooded killer and gave him a backstory that made him seek vengeance upon his dead girlfriend’s family. Baazigar is much more complicated than the original, but also quite fun to watch.

Quentin Tarantino's first film Reservoir Dogs inspired this critically acclaimed Hindi remake by Sanjay Gupta. In fact, Tarantino has also said that Kaante is his favorite among all international remakes of Reservoir Dogs. The Hollywood version starring Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen among others is the story of a gang of strangers who are brought together to rob a bank. When the robbery goes wrong and a member gets shot, the others wonder if the mission was actually an ambush! Kaante, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty, Lucky Ali and Mahesh Manjrekar, starts with The Usual Suspects-like premise of a bunch of people wrongfully placed under lock-up. Also, unlike the Hollywood version, our boys have backstories and reasons to be crooks.

The Hollywood romantic drama was a musical inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It's about two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. In the Bollywood movie, the rival gangs were Eagle and Bitchoo, with Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Chandrachur Singh in the lead.

Aamir Khan and Manisha Koirala's hit pairing was first seen in this film inspired by the courtroom drama Kramer Vs Kramer. Akele Hum Akele Tum is the story of two aspiring singers who fall in love and marry in a whirlwind. When the wife's career takes a backseat and the husband becomes more and more disinterested in household affairs, she walks out on him and their son. The father and son eventually form a close bond. However, after Kiran (Koirala) becomes a celebrity, she claims full custody of her son in a nasty legal battle. While the Hindi version deals with the backstory and the father-son bond, the Hollywood original, starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, mostly focuses on the courtroom and is much more balanced in its depiction. Both Hoffman and Streep won Academy Awards for their performance.

Directed by Kamal Hassan, who also acted as the lead in the movie, Chachi 420, 'inspired' by Robin Williams' Mrs. Doubtfire, has been watched and loved by every 90s kid. The plot of the movie is about an actor, who after a bitter divorce, disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife. Robin Williams won many awards for his role, including a Golden Globe.

The Hollywood movie, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, and homophobia. The movie shows when a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit. Tom Hanks won an Oscar for his role. The Hindi movie features Salman Khan, Shilpa Shetty and Abhishek Bachchan. The film was critically acclaimed and is remembered for Shilpa Shetty's career best performance

Aamir Khan essayed the role of Marlon Brando, from the movie On the Waterfront, in Ghulam. Both the movies have a similar plot line of an amateur boxer runs errands for a local gangster but revolts against him after the gangster kills his friend and his conscience is awakened. Ghulam was a super hit film when it came out, while On the Waterfront won eight Oscars, including one for Best Actor, Supporting Actress, Director and Picture.

Leonard Nimoy's classic comedy Three Men and a Baby starring Ted Danson, Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg was remade by Sajid Khan with Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh Fardeen Khan and Vidya Balan. Three bachelors live their best Casanova life without fear of consequences, until one day a mysterious baby is delivered on their doorstep. The boys then try to find out which one of them is the father of the baby, and in a chaotic manner, contact all of the women they have had relationships with. On the way, each of them form an unlikely yet strong bond with the baby till the mother comes into the picture. The hilarious comedy was successful in both Bollywood and Hollywood and even had a sequel called Three Men and a Little Lady.