At a time when Bollywood is busy in the remake business, filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, who often openly shares his opinions, has now criticised the latest release Jersey. The film stars Shahid Kapoor and is an official remake of Nani starrer Telugu film.
Taking it to Twitter, he wrote, “The DISASTROUS fate of JERSEY film in Hindi signals the DEATH of REMAKES for the simple reason it has been proved multiple times that dubbed films like #Pushpa #RRR #KGF2 are doing far better than originals if the content is good #DeathOfRemakes.”
He wrote further alongside a tag ‘#DeathOfRemakes’, “If Nani ‘s original JERSEY from Telugu was dubbed and released it would have costed the producers just 10 lakhs whereas the remake in Hindi costed 100 cr resulting in losing enormous money,time, effort and face.”
The filmmaker continued to lash at Bollywood, saying, “Bollywood will be now getting ducked from both front and back as they neither seem to know how to make superhits nor can they hope to survive on remaking south films because nobody will sell them REMAKE rights #DeathOfRemakes”.
Movies like Pushpa, RRR and KGF: Chapter 2, released Pan-India in 5 languages, managed to take the box office by storm. “TELUGU and KANNADA films have INFECTED Hindi films like a COVID VIRUS..Hoping that BOLLYWOOD will soon come up with a VACCINE,” says RGV.
To the unversed, some of the upcoming Hindi remakes of South Indian movies are Ranveer Singh and director S Shankar have teamed up Anniyan (Tamil) for remake, The Great Indian Kitchen (Malayalam), Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (Telugu), Driving Licence (Malayalam), Vikram Vedha (Tamil), Soorarai Pottru (Tamil), Samantha’s U-Turn (Tamil, Telugu) and Ratsasan (Tamil).