One concept, three films!

Despite the blatant DVD rip offs in Bollywood sometimes you have to accept that not every film is a copy and that different people can think of the same idea.

For example, the concept of a moneylender (or a recovery agent) who has change of heart.

A friend tells me that in Kerala two films are releasing on July 18 with the same concept featuring the two warring stars Mohanlal and Mamooty. In Madambi, Mohanlal plays a kind hearted money lender in a village who knows how to get his interest and principal amount back using the right pressure technique. In Parinthu, Mamooty is a ruthless moneylender for whom money is ultimate thing in life. He uses all dirty and crude tricks to get his interest and principal back from his creditors.

In the same month Bollywood is lining up EMI for release. Its storyline? Sanjay Dutt plays a ruthless recovery agent for a loan company who has a change of heart when he sees how the middle class is struggling to realise their dreams.

Imagine the mudslinging if two films featuring any of the Khans or the Bachchans with the same concept were releasing on the same day!