7 Bollywood Celebrities Who Have Been Caught Stealing The Work Of Others

Bollywood has always been infamously involved with plagiarism since a long time. It has shamelessly copied film plots from Hollywood and other industries.

Be it copying someone’s music, lyrics, photography or even copying tweets. Bollywood’s love-hate relationship with plagiarism is showing no signs of a break-up anytime soon, because even as recently as this week, popular Bollywood celebrities have been called out for trying to pass off others’ hard work as their own and accused of plagiarising.

We have listed below seven Bollywood celebrities who have been accused of plagiarism in recent times:

1. Urvashi Rautela

Not once, but many times, actress Urvashi Rautela and her team have been accused of plagiarising someone else’s content without giving the author any credit.

Urvashi Rautela is known for having copy-pasted people’s work as her own opinion on social media, Urvashi recently did it again by copying writer John Paul Brammer’s thoughts on the Oscar-Winning movie Parasite and posting it as her opinion of the film on her personal Twitter handle. In other incidents she has also copied PM Modi’s tweet for Shabana Azmi and Sidharth Malhotra’s tweet thanking Mumbai Police.

😂😂😂 oh my god pic.twitter.com/ZagReb3VTH

— Shreemi Verma (@shreemiverma) March 31, 2020

2. Dabboo Ratnani

Recently Kiara Advani shot for Dabboo Ratnani’s calendar grabbed the most number of eyeballs for his bold and beautiful shoot. However, there was a twist in the tale after a user pointed out that Ratnani copied Kiara’s photo-shoot idea from Marie Barsch, who is an international photographer.

 

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Credits 1st shot :- @marieb.photography , post production : @dgtlcraft_postproduction 2nd COPY shot :- most famous Indian celebrity Photographer @dabbooratnani . . . #photographer #photography #meme #memes #jokes #joke #laugh #funnymemes #funny #instagram #tiktok #photographymemes #maibhisadakchap #nustaharamkhor #photokatamasha #shotzhala #nvedi #mumbai #indianphotography #india #coi #moodygrams #itz_mumbai #my_mumbai #_soi #_woi #wadacommunity #photographers_of_india #indiapictures #shwetamalhotra03

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In anither incident Diet Sabya, compared John’s towel pose with that of Antonio Banderas and Sushant Singh Rajput’s previous monochromic stills.

 

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Towel series déjà Vu? YES or NO? 😬😝😫🤐 . . #dietsabya #gandi #copy #towelseries

A post shared by Diet Sabya (@dietsabya) on Feb 24, 2020 at 4:49am PST

3. Sunny Leone

Last year actress Sunny Leone was blasted on social media for copying for charity an artwork originally painted by French illustrator Malika Favre.

The anonymous Instagram account Dietsabya called out the similarity and shared snapshots of similar photographs of Favre and Sunny’s painting.

 

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We are all for charity, but stealing an artists’ original work — without credit — and auctioning it off for charity (as your own) is just dirty. . . Left: original by @malikafavre; right: wtf by @sunnyleone . #dietsabya #gandi #copy #art

A post shared by Diet Sabya (@dietsabya) on Oct 28, 2019 at 9:16am PDT

4. Malaika Arora

In an Instagram post with a black image, actress Malaika Arora has expressed her outrage over the case of mass molestation of women in Bengaluru.

The heartfelt message on women’s safety attracted massive attention and the actress was soon applauded for voicing against the injustice.

 

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So, I went out with my girlfriends to party on the crowded streets of a Metropolitan city, they came out in large numbers and molested us…… But my safety is my responsibility so… The next time I went to a discotheque, it was enclosed and had bouncers, they came into the place and beat us up and ripped our clothes off…….But my safety is my responsibility so…. I went to a movie with a Male friend for company, they pushed me into a bus and shoved an iron rod inside my privates…….But my safety is my responsibility, so…… I went to my college, fully clad in a “decent” salwaar kameez, they caught me around a corner and squeezed my bum……But my safety is my responsibility, so…… I decided to stay at home in the comfort of my own house, they broke down the door, tied me up and videotaped the things they made me do with them…….But my safety is my responsibility, so…… I went back to live with my family feeling safe and secure with them, they were my uncles but they didn’t think of me as their niece when they made me take off my clothes and have their way with me…….But my safety is my responsibility, so……. These days I sit in the bathroom, locked tight, not coming out at all. They stand on the terrace opposite to it peeking in through the bathroom window, but I don’t take a bath…….because my safety is my responsibility……. Now, they have me exactly where they have always wanted me, my spirit broken, my ability to fight back gone, my will to do something destroyed…..at their mercy…..still stuck in the bathroom…..dreading the time when the knocking starts on the door as they come to get me here too. I am that Indian Woman who can excel at sports, win medals for the Country, join the Army, become a CEO, go to the outer space and be the talk of the world…..only if I can come out of this bathroom……But my safety is my responsibility, so…. Disclaimer: Girls wearing short clothes and drinking and partying are copying the Western culture.Boys who molest them r copying the Indian culture???

A post shared by Malaika Arora (@malaikaaroraofficial) on Jan 5, 2017 at 1:22am PST

However, turns out that the note, was first shared by Facebook user Darshan Mondkar, and was later copied by Malaika as the caption of her post.

5. Pritam

Music composer Pritam has been accused time and again for plagiarising songs. Pritam is often accused of stealing music from Western and Korean music without giving them due credit.

In the past, Pritam has been accused of lifting songs like ‘Ya Ali’ from ‘Gangster’ (2006) and ‘Bulleya’ from ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ (2016).

Here it is the guitar tune and background used by Pritam in Bulleya https://t.co/wl14vcvy6N

— Junior Ranveer (@itsSmitBhatt) September 17, 2016

6. Badshah

Rapper Badshah has been facing plagiarism charges on social media over his new single, “Genda Phool”, after netizens pointed out that portions of the song have been lifted from the popular 1970s Bengali folk hit, “Boroloker Biti Lo” by veteran Bengali artiste, Ratan Kahar.

Later it was reported that Badshah paid Ratan Kahar Rs 5 lakh after Genda Phool plagiarism row. Kahar confirmed that he has received Rs 5 lakh from Badshah but said that more than monetary help, he is happy to get recognised as the original lyricist of the Bengali folk song.

Rapper Badshah plagiarized a Bengali folk song by a poor artiste. Was exposed on social media

He now ‘gives’ Rs 5 lakhs to the artiste after making crores from the song

Had it been a Western country, Badshah would have been sued for millions of dollars
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— Quarantined Chirpy (@IndianPrism) April 8, 2020

7. Rakesh Roshan

Rakesh Roshan was sued for copying the music created by Ram Sampath from the movie Krazzy 4. Later Rakesh Roshan paid damages of Rs 2 crore to Sampath to include the song in the film.