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India's Oscar entry Barfi! has at least 10 scenes lifted from Hollywood films

Mumbai, Sep 28: Videos uploaded on YouTube in recent days have gone viral revealing too many scenes in Anurag Basu's Barfi!, India's official entry for the Oscars,  which have been copied frame by  frame from






2: The bank robbery scene where Ranbir plays hide-and-seek with policeman Saurabh Shukla using a sliding door has been lifted straight from Charlie Chaplin's 1917 short film, The Adventurer.

3: The ladder sequence at the beginning of the film shows Ranbir dangling from a ladder perched on a wall, even as cops try to pull him down. It appears to have been lifted from Buster Keaton's 1922 comedy classic, Cops.