Kathmandu, Dec. 7 -- It's almost 2020 and Nepali filmmakers thought it would be a good idea to rehash a 1970s Bollywood film. It wouldn't have been a problem-only they've done a terrible job.

In Zanjeer (1973), Amitabh Bachchan's character suffers a traumatic incident, where, as a child, he sees his parents being shot by an anonymous man. The only clue to the murderer's identity is the hand that wielded the gun wore a charm bracelet with a white horse. In the new Nepali film Saurato, the makers have very conveniently flipped the hero's gender, replaced the bracelet with a locket carrying the Om insignia, and switched the gun with a beetle-nutcracker.

The similarities don't end there. In Zanjeer, Bachchan's character, Vijay, suffers from...