I’m quite sure creative screenplays appeal to cinephiles. I do too. Not until an official remake has a very ingenious twist or effectively adapts the mother narrative to its regional avatar that it looks to be a whole new script. For example, the second installment’s casting is so flawless that one anticipates how the painters would depict already well-known figures in their distinctive strokes. Remember Maheshinte Prathikaram, the Telugu version of the critically acclaimed Malayalam film? In Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya, Satyadev’s retaliation against Fahadh Faasil’s small-town photographer gained him his own fan club!
Even if one is familiar with Oriol Paulo’s Spanish murder thriller Contratiempo, Venkat Ramji’s official Telugu version Evaru is not diminished in the least. The verbal gymnastics of Adivi Sesh and Regina Cassandra keep you engaged throughout. Does it mean I’ll give Shabbir Khan’s forthcoming romantic comedy Nikamma a chance? Given the chemistry between Nani and Sai Pallavi in Middle Class Abbayi, I doubt Abhimanyu Dassani, Shirley Setia, or even Shilpa Shetty would stand a chance. Yes, there’s Vikram Vedha, Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali Khan’s big-budget film set to premiere in September.
Prithviraj, Chandraprakash Dwivedi’s historical drama, has a lot riding on it. With the trailer for the Akshay Kumar film circulating on social media, it’s evident that this Yash Raj movie is being marketed as the success shower that would break the Hindi film industry’s box-office drought. Kumar, with his capacity to draw in large crowds, has seldom failed. But do you know what may fool the khiladi this time? Major, directed by Sashi Kiran Tikka, will be released on June 3, the same day as Prithviraj.
A film that will most likely be remembered by a small Bandra and Andheri West audience! To each his own, I suppose, but the true social media blitzkrieg is yet to come. When Om Raut’s Adipurush teaser/trailer gets released towards the end of the year! Imagine how epic the reaction of Prabhas fans would be when the Indian wave grips our movie nation and its loves! I’ll be waiting with baited breath to see it!
