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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






10: The story idea of the film Barfi! seems to be inspired by 1993 Johnny Depp-starrer, Benny & Joon, about a mentally ill girl falling in love with an eccentric man. Here, Ranbir is deaf and mute and Priyanka is an autistic girl and they both fall in love and die in each other's arms.