The story of Chopra’s film is credited to Gulshan Nanda, a popular writer of pulp romances in Hindi during the 1960s and mid-’70s whose works had been adapted for the screen by many big directors of the period. Incidentally, the silent film of 1921 directed by Sidney Morgan, co-starring Fred Groves, Paulin Peters, Warwick Ward, was the first adaptation of the classic in collaboration with the author. Yash Chopra’s first independent film as a producer, that subsequently earned him the title of ‘King of Romance’, “Daag” ostensibly drew inspiration from the British television movie “The Mayor of Casterbridge” based on Thomas Hardy’s classic novel by the same name. Not only plots and situations were freely borrowed from Western films even frame-by-frame copying was proudly executed. ![]() Before the advent of video and the internet in the 1970s, Bollywood thrived on plagiarism.
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