Yeah, this dirty linen of Rajinder Singh Bedi belongs to someone named William Sydney Porter, also known as O'Henry, a not extremely unknown literary figure, and the original story is entitled "A Double-dyed Deceiver". Interestinly, there was also a movie made,with the same title,way back in 1920.
Bombai Ka Babu was a complete copy of this O'Henry short story, until Bedi brought in the angle of supposedly brother-sister love (something perhaps unthinkable in India even by today's norms), and thus made this movie very bold and quite interesting/impressive. This movie was my all-time favorite Hindi movie until I read the O'Henry story. But then, the most sincere tribute inferiority pays to genius is by copying their work.
I was really impressed by Bedi's book "Ek Chadar Maili Si" and it's difficult for me to attribute the adjective of "inferiority" to him. But as far as I remember now (maybe I'm wrong!), this movie does not acknowledge the source, and thus Bedi, as the author, should be accountable for this.
Bombai Ka Babu was a complete copy of this O'Henry short story, until Bedi brought in the angle of supposedly brother-sister love (something perhaps unthinkable in India even by today's norms), and thus made this movie very bold and quite interesting/impressive. This movie was my all-time favorite Hindi movie until I read the O'Henry story. But then, the most sincere tribute inferiority pays to genius is by copying their work.
I was really impressed by Bedi's book "Ek Chadar Maili Si" and it's difficult for me to attribute the adjective of "inferiority" to him. But as far as I remember now (maybe I'm wrong!), this movie does not acknowledge the source, and thus Bedi, as the author, should be accountable for this.