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Quentin Tarantino is all praises for Reservoir Dogs 'inspired' Sanjay Gupta's Kaante! Yes folks I didn't make that up and I guess there is no accounting for taste!

In an interview conducted by a short film director Srinivas at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, Tarantino commented on the many rip-offs that his film has spawned. "I think it was fabulous. Of the many rip-offs (of Reservoir Dogs) I loved Hong Kong's Too Many Ways To Be No.1 and this one, Kaante. The best part is, you have Indian guys coming to the US and looting a US bank. How cool is that! I was truly honored. And these guys are played by the legends of Bollywood."

"Here I am, watching a film that I've directed and then it goes into each character's background. And I'm like, 'Whoa'. For, I always write backgrounds and stuff and it always gets chopped off during the edit. And so I was amazed on seeing this. I felt, this isn't Reservoir Dogs. But then it goes into the warehouse scene and I am like, 'Wow it's back to Reservoir Dogs'. Isn't it amazing!"

I hope this doesn't inspire Sanjay Gupta also known as the DVD Director to subject us to more stupid Hollywood remakes!

Update: Looks like the article has been taken from the website: www.passionforcinema.com and not Mumbai Mirror. I dont know what the story is but apparently Subash K Jha stole snippets of conversation from the website and passed it off as an interview which in turn has been published by a number of blogs including Our Bollywood. Our apologies to PFC but as mentioned we were not aware that it was PFC which was behind the interview and not Mumbai Mirror.

To read the Original Interview Go Here

To read about the whole controversy go here