Is Tees Maar Khan an "inspired" version of a Peter Sellers' film?

Tees Maar Khan copy of Peter Sellers' After The Fox? 
By Bollywood Hungama News Network, 

How many of you have heard about the most famous Hollywood comedian (after Charlie Chaplin of course) Peter Sellers? If not, please watch his movie The Party. Anyway, the point to bring up a man of such repertoire is because his films are still inspiring a lot of filmmakers from Bollywood. Peter Sellers 1966 Italian film After The Fox (Caccia Alla Volpe) is one such example. Yes, you heard it.

But the word 'inspiration' is too cliche. It's 'similarities' that count when our filmmakers get inspired. After a bit of research, we found out that one of the most anticipated films of this year,Tees Maar Khan, is a fully inspired version of the 1966 comedy, After The Fox starring Peter Sellers. And after watching the trailer, here are some of the 'similarities' evident between both the films:

Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), one of the greatest criminals of the world, and master of disguise. After Aldo escapes from the Italian prison he was held in, he meets again with his friends, and plans to retrieve the "gold of Cairo" a large shipment of gold, that waits to be unloaded somewhere in Italy. Aldo devices the perfect plan. Posing as a famous director, he finds the ideal coastal village to unload the shipment, and persuades the entire population that he has chosen their village as the set for his new movie.



Everybody, including the idiot chief of the local police is so excited, that they can't even imagine that in fact they are helping the Fox to get the "gold of Cairo".

1. After The Fox: Peter Sellers plays a master of disguises thief who makes an entire village a movie set to pull off a heist.
Tees Maar Khan: Akshay Kumar plays a master of disguises who makes an entire village into a movie set to pull off a heist.

2. ATF: Victor Mature plays a vain movie star acting in the "film within the film" and Sellers plays on his vanity.
TMK: Akshaye Khanna plays a vain movie star acting in the "film within the film" and Kumar plays on his vanity.

3. In both cases there is a bumbling police chief.

4. In both cases, the hero's mother really thinks he's a filmmaker.

5. In both cases there's a femme fatale.

6. ATF: A ship is heisted.
TMK: A train is heisted.

We contacted director Farah Khan to find out the truth in this. She, however, denied TMK being inspired by After The Fox. Says Farah.....

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