Remakes gone wrong

Almost every Indian has accepted the fact that Bollywood movies are “so-not-original” and their stories are inspired (borrowed) from Hollywood movies and Tamil movies. I am not saying that we lack creativity, but I wish our story writers would work hard on creating something unique and new, where we could proudly say that “Yes! That’s the good movie and it’s not even a remake”.

Okay fine, remakes are good but how much justice they do to the story?

80% of audience comes out of movie hall cursing every possible person who is related to the movie.

1. Deewane hue pagal : I know even reading the name has made u flinch. I am sorry for mentioning such a funny name and more to that such a disastrous movie.Well this Shaheed Kapoor, Akshay Kumar and Suniel Shetty starrer movie tops the chart of “remakes gone wrong” awards. It is a clear remake of one of the best and funniest Hollywood movie ‘There’s something about Mary’ and not to mention its cool cast Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon and Ben Stiller. At any day I would watch this movie, but the Bollywood remake gives me headache.

2. Dil Bole Hadippa : The name is enough for me to recall Rani Mukherjee as a chotu sardar playing cricket in men’s team. The same goes with Hollywood movie She’s the man, where Amanda Bynes sneaks in boys hostel impersonating as her twin brother and joins the boys soccer team. But seriously, Dil Bole Hadippa stands nowhere when it comes to She’s the man. That was the super cool movie and funniest of all. I would recommend this movie to all my readers.

3. God tussi great ho : Everyone has seen Bruce Almighty and not to mentioned how much everyone loved Jim Carrey for his awesome performance. Then Bollywood decides to bring Salman Khan in his place and Amitabh Bacchan as god. Well, they took good cast, but what about the story? It sucked and never reached the height of Bruce Almighty. Some scenes in the movies were headless, pointless and useless. God tussi great ho would have turned into good remake if (and only if) the story writer would have used some creativity.

4. Mere Yaar ki Shaadi hai : If you remember a movie My best friend’s wedding (Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz) not just concept, but also the title is used. Huh!

Mere yaar ki shaadi hai was literally disappointing, leave alone Uday Chopra’s performance. On the other hand, my best friend’s wedding was a cute movie and one of the best performance by Julia Roberts.

So, to all my Indian readers, if you believe all these remakes I have mentioned above sucks and if you haven’t watched the original ones, please watch them, they are far better than remakes.

(PS - I have seen all the movies which I have mentioned above and hence this is my personal view on the remakes).

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How are the movies changing

Old Movies:

She is running in a narrow alley with her handbag clutch tight in both of her hands. A young man is running behind her, flashing his sharp fangs, hungry for her blood and ready to pounce on her at any moment. She is running as fast as she could and already knows the fact that the creature will get her in no time.

All of sudden, she bumps on a strong man, who was standing at the end of alley, with a sharp stake in his hand. As an instant reaction, she hugs him tightly and hides behind her savior.

The creature running behind her halts and looks eye in eye of the man, who is holding stake. He growls sending a warning to the hero to stay away. But the hero is adamant, clutches the stake tightly in his hand, ready to pounce at the given chance.

The creature finally decides to move back. He turns and disappears in the night in no time.
The hero embraces the girl in his strong muscular arms and kisses her – ensuring that she is safe now.

Scene cut!!



New Movies:

She is running in a narrow alley with her handbag clutch tight in both of her hands. Three young rowdy men are running behind her, trying hard to get their grip on her. She is running as fast as she could and already knows the fact that those people will get her soon and there is no escape point.

Suddenly a car comes racing in their direction and a young, hot boy gets down from the car. His eyes focus on the three of them. As an instant reaction, she hugs him tightly and hides behind her savior.

The three men halts seeing the young boy and starts laughing. They know he is no match to all three of them. Then, the young boy growls flashing his sharp, long fangs at them.
In horror, they go few steps back hesitantly and within a second they are out of view running for their life.

The vampire holds the girl in his pale but strong arms and kisses her – ensuring that she is safe with him.


Moral of the story: Baddies are the now turning heroes, but the heroines are still running with someone behind them :P

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