Fahim FarookIndian movies "borrowing”/remaking English and other language movies is fairly standard. But what's even more prevalent is Indian movies in one language being remade in another language 🙂<br><br>This is a practice which probably goes back all the way to the beginning of Indian cinema. I certainly remember Tamil movies being remade in Hindi (or vice versa) all the way back to when I was a kid … and that was almost 50 years ago.<br><br>In fact, some stars have made a career out of taking a movie which was successful in another Indian region/language and making a hit movie — Jeyam Ravi and Ajay Devgn are names which immediately come to my mind …<br><br>Ajay Devgn has starred in the remake of the Tamil Suriya starrer “Singam” (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1655607" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1655607</a>) franchise, renamed to “Singham” (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1948150" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1948150</a>) in Hindi 🙂<br><br>Even more interestingly, the Hindi “Singham” movies have taken on a life of their own and spawned spin-offs which make up Rohit Shetty’s (the director of the movies) “Cop Universe” (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_Universe" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_Universe</a>) which has various cops, including Singham, inhabiting a shared universe.<br><br>You can find the Tamil version of the first movie on YouTube:<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-c07uvZik" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-c07uvZik</a><br><br>There are multiple videos claiming to the Hindi movie on YouTube as well but I haven't found one which is actually the movie 🙂 It looks as if most are just re-assembled clips from the movie with an audio commentary — probably because the authors are violating copyright by uploading the movie 😛<br><br>I have not seen the Hindi version but my impression was that it was mostly a scene-for-scene remake rather than a re-imagining … <br><br>Guess I should find out one of these days?<br><br>Also an interesting thing to note about these cross-language remakes is that some actors, such as Prakash Raj (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695177" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695177</a>) who plays the baddie in both “Singam” and “Singham” will reprise their role. Prakash Raj is fairly notable for this BTW since I remember him playing the same role in multiple such remakes …<br><br>(I actually wanted to talk about another re-made franchise Ajay Devgn starred in which has been re-made in at least three different Indian languages, but I think that’ll have to wait for another post …)<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://a.farook.org/tag/movies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Movies</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://a.farook.org/tag/india" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#India</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://a.farook.org/tag/hindi" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hindi</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://a.farook.org/tag/tamil" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tamil</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://a.farook.org/tag/remakes" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Remakes</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://a.farook.org/tag/singam" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Singam</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://a.farook.org/tag/singham" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Singham</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://a.farook.org/tag/suriya" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Suriya</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://a.farook.org/tag/ajaydevgn" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AjayDevgn</a>