Nov 16, 2003 03:10 PM
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(Updated Nov 16, 2003 03:10 PM)
There is a trend of remaking films from one language to other language in India. Many of the Tamil films are remade in Hindi but most of the time those films have gone unnoticed in bollywood. The main reason may because there is a lot of nativity and realism in Tamil cinema, which is very rare in bollywood. I think the actual feel and emotions of the Tamil film will go unnoticed by the intrusion of unnecessary songs with many group dancers and in foreign locales of bollywood directors who remake the film in Hindi. Lot of films with political subjects and social issues come from Tamil cinema, which is not there in Bollywood, and people there don’t like such stuff in movies. Films like Nayagan,Kadhalukku Mariyathai (Doli sajakhe rakhna), Mudhalvan(Nayak), Virasaat(Thevar Magan),Suryavamsam(Suryavamsam),Kushi(Kushi) are few to mention which were unforgettable movies in Tamil cinema which made a clean sweep when remade in Hindi. Even when a Tamil director or a technician moves to bollywood they hesitate to accept them for example Shankar (Nayak) and Maniratnam (Dilse) the greatest directors of Tamil Cinema both of them directed one Hindi movie but both could not succeed.
Coming to review of the movie “Tere naam”
It is remake of the most unforgettable and trend setting movie of Tamil cinema “Sethu” directed by Bala. “Sethu” was already remade in Telugu and Kannada.In both these languages the film was a box office Hit. But what happened to the Hindi version. I was a big flop.
The reason behind it is
1) Inclusion of lot of songs in first half, which was not there in the original version.
2) The songs and the background score of the music both are horrible and irritating.
3) Each and every scene and the dialogues is exactly remade which doesn’t fit their culture and lacks nativity.
4) The cast, particularly, Salmankhan a worst choice for this character. He has no expressions in his face and he has given his worst performance in this movie. The scenes in which we got stunned by the extraordinary performance of ”Vikram”, and scenes where only expressions of the character speak, I could not find any expression in the face of salman. Salman has not done even 50% of what Vikram did in “Sethu”. Merely changing the hairstyle doesn’t help to look different; it is the performance that makes the impression and the difference.
5) The direction and screenplay. I don’t remember his name but please eventhough you remake a film you have to work a lot in screenplay to make the people accept the movie, which is different from their culture or nativity.
An unforgettable movie “Sethu” has been well spoiled and badly adapted in Hindi Version.I really cried at the end not for the climax but for spoiling the movie.
