Remake Raja continues in Kannada:Cinejwala:

A DVD in the pocket the producers come with the director to make copy cats. The assured project somewhere would yield results is the wrong notion. Many remakes have bombed and a few of them clicked in the past. The directors blame producers as they come with DVD in the pocket while producers blame directors for not coming out with convincing original scripts.

There was a time a ‘Remake Virodhi Sangha’ was formed by original film directors in Kannada. The lobby of remake film makers is so strong that they got nod for the 100 percent Entertainment tax exemption that was not given so far. That was the association formed by Dr Girish Kasaravalli, TS Nagabharana, Nagathihalli Chandrasekhar, P Seshadri and others. The association was short lived.

When Sunilkumar Desai made ‘Beladingala Baale’ based on Yendimuri Veerendranath novel it was critically acclaimed but the benefits was taken in the Tamil film industry. With the ‘Beladingala Baale’ of versatile actor Ananthnag ‘Kadhal Kotai’ was made in Tamil that was a huge hit. The same Kadhal Kotai was made in Kannada by V Ravichandran for Rockline Venkatesh productions as ‘Yaare Neenu Cheluve’. The trend continued in Tamil with hero and heroine missing each other was there for more time.

Now the Zamana is not only remaking of Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam films but Iran, Hollywood, Korean and other countries films.

The recent release of super star Upendra in the direction of P Vasu ‘Arakshaka’ is Martin Scorsese ‘Shutter Island’ and 3rd February release is the remake of ‘Taken and Trade’ and a few portions of it were found in ‘Jackie’ block buster Kannada cinema.