Jaane Hoga Kya (Who Knows What Will Happen) is reportedly a Bolly B-movie, but at least it has the sense to lift from the best.

It’s a story about a murderous clone, and though rogue clone stories are hardly uncommon, this one sounds uncomfortably similar to a sci-fi story I read once, with a title I can’t remember (perhaps by Heinlein):

He begins to clone himself and after much perseverance he succeeds. But his clone goes missing and all hell breaks loose when suddenly Siddharth is put behind bars for a crime he did not commit… he realises that it is his clone who has been impersonating him… Meanwhile, the clone aims at taking over Siddharth’s life… The clone even kills Dr. Krishnan… [Link]

In a similarly homicidal android story, ‘Fondly Fahrenheit’ by Alfred Bester, a trust fund kid’s android turns homicidal when the mercury rises above a specific temperature. I’m thoroughly encouraged by this Bolly sci-fi trend, even when inept — they’re not quite Manos: The Hands of Fate, and they can only get better. It sounds like this flick gets an A for concept, B for Bipasha Basu, and F for Aftab Shivdasani, whose blank stillness makes Keanu Reeves look like Al Pacino.

I have a friend who works in Bollyfilm who claims that he’s seen absolutely the cheesiest Bollywood stars walk out of bookstores and video shops carrying Calvino and Almodóvar. Many are far from dumb, he says, they’re just stuck in the system.