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When movies didn't mean just entertainment : List of crimes inspired by the silverscreen

PUBLISHED DATE : 28/Feb/2018

When movies didn't mean just entertainment : List of crimes inspired by the silverscreen

A day after the parents of a missing 20-year-old woman lodged a complaint with the Hyderabad police that their daughter was kidnapped, cops on Tuesday found out that the incident was staged. According to news reports, police revealed that the 20-year old girl had shot a video of her kidnapping on her mobile mobile and sent it to her mother alleging that five unknown people had kidnapped her and tied her mouth and hands. When caught, she revealed that she orchestrated the self-abduction as her mother was trying to get her married to a person she didn't like. All the drama aside, the incident sounds very much like the plot-line of the 1997 Cameron Diaz starrer A Life Less Ordinary in which a 20-year old Diaz stages a kid-nap to seek revenge on her father who tries to get her married to a man of his choice.

This isn't the first time a crime seems to have been inspired from a movie or a real-life crime show like Savdhaan India and Crime Patrol. India has for long played host to a series of crimes or attempted crimes inspired by movies of all languages. A list of Indian movies that have served as 'inspiration' to the series can be seen below :

1. Poi Solla Porom (Remake of National Award winning Khosla ka Ghosla) - The movie which was a satirical take on middle-class' fight against land-fraud, seems to have inspired document and land forgery by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA). The controversy revealed that employees of the DDA had forged and re-sold plots in Delhi, similar to what the characters of Nasser and Boman Irani did in their films.

2. Papanasam / Dhrishyam - Since this particular script was made and very well received in almost all prominent Indian movie languages, it was no wonder that a Bhopal-murder was carried out taking a leaf from the movie. In 2015, suspected criminals of a murder-case admitted to have taken tips from the protagonist of this suspense thriller to dispose the body of a 25 year-old, which was later found floating in the city’s Hathikeda Dam. In 2016, a murder case of a former staffer of the American Embassy School in New Delhi revealed that the murderer has applied the tact of throwing the cell-phone of the dead on a moving vehicle, inspired from the film.

3. Thaana Serntha Kootam / Special 26 - In June 2013, a group of 8 men posed as Income Tax officers in Mumbai and walked away with cash and gold ornaments worth Rs 12 lakhs. Later, five armed robbers posing as CBI officials struck a Muthoot Finance branch in Hyderabad and left with 40kg of gold. Early 2018, inspired by the Tamil version of the movie, a man had allegedly entered Tamil politician J. Deepa's house on the pre-text of an IT officer and had ended up creating a commotion.

4. Vasool Raja MBBS / Munnabhai MBBS - Almost a decade after the original and the Tamil remake were released, a higher secondary level question-paper leak inspired from the film had made headlines of several news papers. It was even revealed that the answers were leaked through the phones and messages just as shown in the film. What's more was that several admission and question-paper leak rackets, very similar to the way the hero gets into the college and passes exams started cropping up all over the country.

5. Bogan / Face Off / Yevadu - In a bizzare development in December 2017, the same year Jayam Ravi starrer Bogan which was inspired from Face-Off released, a wife in Telengana killed her husband then disfigured her boyfriend with acid after he agreed to have plastic surgery and steal her dead partner's identity. The idea of identity-switch that appeared in Telugu film Yevadu as well, was admitted to be the 'inspiration' behind this orchestration.

6. Nooravathu Naal - This 1984 Manivannan directorial starring Nalini, Mohan and Vijayakanth had inspired the infamous murder case by Auto Shankar and his ally Jaya Prakash who had admitted to killing around 5 people and hiding their bodies in the walls of residential houses after watching the movie.

7. Vishwaroopam - The 2013 movie which was directed by and starred in by Kamal Haasan showed how terrorists use pigeons to carry radioactive material for bombs. In 2015, the Punjab Police found a pigeon with Urdu message stamped on its wings and a small wired object tied around it, on a house-roof 4 KM from the Indo-Pak border.