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The
transfer of ideas from Tollywood to Kollywood
started a long time ago. This particular
trend was stylized by the director ‘Jayam’
Raja who has got 100% success rate to
his credit so far. And now we have another
person who is treading along the same
path. Mithran Jawahar. He is just 3 films
old. All his movies are telugu remakes.
All his film have got Dhanush playing
the main lead.
I am not trying to compare the two of
them. Recently I had the opportunity to
watch the movie Uthama Puthiran. After
watching the movie, I got the same elated
feeling that I got when I finished watching
the original movie. It is really a tough
job to re-create the same magic that was
created originally. What most of the remakes
have in Kollywood is a scene-by-scene
replica of the original and very rarely
do the film-makers take the liberty to
divert from the original track. But even
when it is so, the soul needs to be
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transitioned intact and that is
where the director, actors and all the other sub-ordinates
come into play. Take for example the character that
Vivek essayed in Uthima Puthran. In the original it
was done by Brahmanandam and it must have been a nightmare
for Vivek to do the same with that character in Tamil.
No wonder Vivek refused the role initially.
There is a small problem...re-make zone is the place
where the director and all the associates involved
in the film can rectify the mistakes and do away with
unnecessary stuffs which was there in the original.
And seldom do I see such things happening in India.
For example, the Spiderman sequence in Uthima Puthran
could have been done away with and something innovative
or different could have been scripted to teach the
little lad a lesson. In re-make’s there is already
a base script and base film to follow on. There is
ample of opportunity to play and tweak with the original
for the directors and the screenwriter(s). Re-make
is just not about taking a movie and re-doing it for
the respective audience. It is also about re-creating
the original magic and also where the creativity of
the screen-writers and director comes into play.
I hope more meaningful and creative remakes come to
Kollywood in the future.
Jeeth John
Doha, Qatar
jeethjohnp@yahoo.com
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Puthiran, Dhanush,
Genelia,
Vivek,
Mithran
R. Jawahar, Vijay
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