Several remakes have been announced in the last few days. It includes names like Vikram Vedha, Surara Potru, and Annan, Jersey who were announced before them. This series of remakes is not new, but now it is happening fast. The special thing is that the director who made the film in another language earlier is making it in Hindi. Like the remake of Saif and Hrithik starrer Vikram Vedha is being directed by Gayatri-Pushkar, who directed it in Tamil.
This raises two questions. First, has the original writing in Hindi cinema gone down drastically? You will see that most of the big films that are being made are remakes. Like 'Lal Singh Chaddha' is a remake of Forrest Gump. 'Radhe' was a remake of a Korean film. Every other day we get to hear about a remake.
In such a situation, where are the writers of Hindi cinema, why are they not writing the original story? In a way, it is easy to change a film that has already been made for the North Indian audience. It does not take as much effort as writing the story from the beginning.
The second question is that if a director has made a film once, then why is he interested in making the same film again. Like in 'Kabir Singh', director Sandeep Vanga took many scenes of 'Arjun Reddy' as they are. In such a situation, how would creativity be fun for a director? Earlier in the 1990s also directors like Abbas-Mustan and Robin Bhatt used to do this.
They used remakes or scenes from English films. But then the internet was not so accessible and the copyright rules were not so strict. But now the original film is available to watch on the internet. People know what was special in it, how the remake was made.
In such a situation, will the director be able to remake that film at the same level, bring its appeal to the new film? At the same time, regional language cinema has strong roots in the culture. How do you retain the nuances of the original film when you extract the same story and make it for a wider audience? So the question in my mind is why are we announcing the remake so fast?
Why are the writers of Hindi cinema not writing the original story or they are not being written? Like Shahid Kapoor could do anything after the success of 'Kabir Singh', but he then chose a remake 'Jersey'. Perhaps even the star feels safe to remake that if it has worked in one language, then it may also work in Hindi because the story is strong. So maybe behind the remake, there will be pressure from the star, pressure from the producer too.
However, it is not one-sided. Hindi films are also being remade in the south. Like 'Pink' was made in Telugu and Tamil. That is, Hindi films are also going in that direction, but remakes of South and English films are being made in Hindi much faster. Now it will be interesting to see how the audience sees this trend. Will there be a large part of the audience who would have seen the original.
Earlier, we did not get to see most of the original films. So couldn't compare much. But now you can easily watch the original. Some are also with Hindi dubbing. Then will you enjoy the remake as much or not? This has become a big question now.
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