More than Alan Pukula's The Devil's Own Subhash Ghai's Black & White seems to replicate Joseph Costelo's The War Within where a closet terrorist arrives in New York, befriends a benign Muslim family and plans to blow up the Grand Central. Subhash Ghai is puzzled. "I've never heard of The War Within. In Devil's Own the terrorist succeeds in his mission. In Black & White, the point is that we need to kill terrorism not terrorists. That really touched me. As for the similarities, in world cinema there're 36 plots, only 4 in Mumbai. Sometimes we stretch it to 4.5. Black & White does that." read more
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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