Be it Karz or Sholay (which is the remake of the 1960 film Magnificent Seven)! It is the economic thrust of cinema that comes into play here. How is it possible? For example, you love a Mercedes and decide to build it but end up making a Maruti.Poster of The Italian JobDil Bole Hadippa: This YRF production was a copy of Amanda Bynes’ hit romcom She’s The Man. Kramer, was a huge success and a cult-classic with Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep as the leading pair.”Hollywood remakes which tanked at the box-officeAction Replayy: The Akshay Kumar-Aishwarya Rai starrer was a remake of the 1985 Oscar-winning film Back to the Future.

The makers need to be true to the story they want to tell the audience,” says Shashank. There are movies which enjoy an iconic status. When you are doing a wholesale PET film remake, there’s a lot of interest generated.A still from Bruce AlmightyHum Tum: The romcom starring Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji was inspired by the Hollywood romcom, When Harry Met Sally. But people have seen a Mercedes and if you try to sell people the Maruti, they will not buy it. But you have to make it contemporary and also get in a local flavour without disturbing the film.Akele Hum Akele Tum: The original film, Kramer vs.God Tussi Great Ho was said to be a remake of Bruce AlmightyA higher modelTalking about why the remake formula doesn’t work here, director Vivek Agnihotri says, “It is because we look at a 100 million dollar Hollywood film and then want to copy it — wanting to make a 2 million dollar film and expecting the same result.

“There are a few Hollywood remakes that have done extremely well in the past. However, this is not the first time that an Indian director has decided to remake a highly-revered Hollywood movie.With a string of remakes being announced one after the other, experts express their views on what it possibly takes to make or break a film remade in India.Remakes are one of the most tried and tested formulae that filmmakers attempt to deliver a successful movie, notwithstanding the fact that it brings along the baggage of expectation — especially when the original is a big commercial and critical hit. Perhaps then, it is not surprising that Bengali actor Dev Adhikari was heavily trolled on social media, after it was announced that he would play the part of Leonardo DiCaprio in Raj Chakraborty’s Bengali remake of the classic Hollywood movie, Titanic.Players: This 2012 movie was a remake of the epic heist film The Italian Job.A still from Kramer vs.

I think that if you just get the adaptation right, it will work well. In most cases, filmmakers fail to Indianise the concept of a foreign film, like it happened in the case of Bang Bang! (the remake of Knight and Day), Players (the remake of Italian Job), We are family (the remake of Stepmom) and Hum Tum (the remake of When Harry Met Sally). If you make it worse, no one will watch it,” he feels.He opines, “It may not be an official remake but they are all based on Western films. “If you make 100 films a year, 80 will fail and if we make 10 remakes a year, 8 of them fail — it is the same ratio. It is an invaluable property and it makes sense to cash in on it, but one has to take it forward properly,” he says.At the same time, Vivek also feels that the director is not to blame for the success or failure of such a film.A still from the film Stepmom (1988), which was remade in Bollywood as We Are FamilyWe Are Family: The original film, Stepmom (1988), starred Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon and Ed Harris and was received extremely well by the audience. If the film connects with people it will work. So it is not that only remakes fail, I don’t agree with the statement,” he states.

“Sometimes a remake works and sometimes it does not.God Tussi Great Ho: Even the presence of stars like Salman Khan, amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra couldn’t save this Bruce Almighty remake.Boney KapoorResonating Boney’s thoughts, director Shashank Khaitan, who directed the film Badrinath Ki Dulhania, adds that if the story remains interesting after modifications, and the local audience is able to relate to it, the film will surely do well. KramerIn fact, Karan says that remakes do pretty well in India because ‘we literally remake everything’. Filmmakers are also planning to remakes of other hit movies like The Fault In Our Stars, Red and Rambo. That is the problem!” he says. If tomorrow you decide to make Titanic, you have to ensure you make it better. “I don’t think the director’s role should be pointed but the producer’s role should.

But with the low success rate of such films, one wonders what their fate will be.No right formulaHowever, director Karan Anshuman, who has helmed the highly successful web series Inside Edge, feels that any movie, no matter how new and creative, can fail at the box office and that remakes are no different.The iconic Titanic posterA dash of IndiaFilmmaker Boney Kapoor opines that all that is needed to make a successful remake of a hit Hollywood film is to make minimal changes and add local flavour.It is known that very few have been able to retain the charm of original movies in Indian celluloid. It’s the usual trend of how some films work and some don’t and again, with remakes, it will be the same case.

The climax of the heart-wrenching movie was deemed as poetic as the entire plot, with the song Ae zindagi gale laga le as an ode to the philosophy of uncertainty in life. And so will Kaate nahi kat-te, an iconic sultry number which saw the actor romance an invisible man in a song revelling in a never-before-seen boldness and fantasy.She made her Bollywood debut as a child artiste in 1975 hit "Julie" but continued ruling the South Indian film industry where she established herself as a leading heroine with films such as "16 Vayathinile", "Sigappu Rojakkal", "Meendum Kokila" and "Moondram Pirai".An extremely shy person in real life, Sridevi came alive in front of the cameras, playing a variety of roles. Her name, most of the times, was a guarantee enough for a films success.

In 1987 came Shekhar Kapurs "Mr India", a film which was produced by herfuture husband Boney Kapoor. She was Miss Hawa Hawaaii and Chandni for them. She continued acting in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films but it was her career in Bollywood that made her a household name in the country.Filmmaker Yash Chopra cast her in the title role of "Chandni" in the 1989 film, another iconic film of her career.She also had a starring role in Tamil film "Puli" and followed "English Vinglish" with another successful outing in "Mom", which also featured Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Akshaye Khanna.She gained commercial success with the 1983 film "Himmatwala" opposite Jeetendra, which also established her as one of the best dancers in cinema.After "Judaai", Sridevi took a break from acting to focus on her marriage with Boney Kapoor. In Bollywood, she made her debut in 1978 as a lead actor in "Solva Sawan". She had two daughters -- Janhvi and Khushi -- with Kapoor.The actor made a successful comeback to cinema 15 years later with Gauri Shindes "English Vinglish", playing a housewife who learns English after feeling left out in her family.

The actors elder daughter Janhvi is on the cusp of her own cinematic journey with "Dhadak", a remake of the Marathi blockbuster "Sairat". Sridevi started acting at the age of four and made her debut with M A Thirumughams "Thunaivan".. Unfortunately, Sridevi will not be there to witness it. Such was her performance in the film that fans came to recognise her with the name of Chandni. Sridevi gave a memorable performance as crime reporter Seema Sohni.Owing to the cult status the song went on to achieve, the Kavita Krishnamurthy number has been recreated a number of times China metallized film manufacturers in films such as "Shaitan" and most recently in Vidya Balans "Tumhari Sulu". Such was her popularity that her style and dance moves would be copied by her fans country over. She was one of the few female actors who left the audience spellbound with both her comic timing and sensuality.How her undercover scribe transformed into Ms Hawa Hawaaii, thanks to her dancing skills in one of the popular songs, is one of the most memorable scenes of the film.

Sridevi followed it up with a number of commercial hits such as "Mawaali", "Tohfa", "Masterji" and "Nazrana".Mumbai: In an industry dominated by male superstars, Sridevi reversed the trend by her sheer acting prowess.It did not do well at the box office at that time but has come to be known one the best films of Sridevi, Chopra and Anil Kapoors careers. The film was said to be ahead of its times as it dealt with a woman falling for an older man who is in love with her dead mother.The year 1983 also saw Sridevi give stellar performances in both critically acclaimed and box-office hits such as "Sadma", where she played the role of a woman who loses her memory.

She was grace-personified dressed as an apsara (a celestial beauty in Hindu mythology) performing on the hit track Nainon mein sapna.Her pairing with Anil Kapoor, her "Mr India" co-star and brother-in-law, was particularly successful and she would work with him again in "Laadla" and "Judaai".Impressed with her performance in the film, Chopra cast her again in "Lamhe" in a dual role, where she played the mother and the daughter.Both she and actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan played the roles in the Hindi remake of their 1982 Tamil movie, "Moondram Pirai".Her other major box office hits of the era were "Chaalbaaz", where she played the role of twins, "Nagina", and "Khuda Gawah" opposite Amitabh Bachchan

Indeed, several Bollywood films have had to face similar problems, the most recent being the alleged trouble over the name of Shashank Khaitan’s directorial, Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya. But since the court has ruled for the name to be changed there’s nothing much anyone can do but change the name.According to the actor, the ‘dot com’ part of the title was relevant, since the two lead characters, played by him and Taapsee Pannu, create a website. The morale was of course down for a while. According to latest reports, Shoojit has given into the demands of the portal following a high court battle.

He is now sitting with a team and will be making the necessary changes for the next two days,” he says.com, when the latter demanded a change in the film’s name, which they believed to be a copyright infringement. “With Total Siyappa, the problem had been that a publication had a copyright over the name Aman Ki Asha.com met with trouble this week.After controversy surrounding Jolly LLB’s name, where an advocate approached Bombay high court to get ‘LLB’ dropped from the title, Shoojit Sircar’s latest production Runningshaadi. There’s more to the film than just a ‘dot com’ and I believe that the audience will love the film, regardless. While legal issues like what Running Shaadi is facing can’t be helped, I really think that battles over names like Padmavati or earlier Udta Punjab, which had also come under fire for its references to the state, can be avoided,” the director added.

To have to change it all of a sudden gives rise to a whole slew of problems. “I have no idea what happened, or how this suddenly came to pass. The film ran into turbulent weather with the matrimonial website Shaadi. But I’m just trying to stay positive in the face of it all. I have, so far, no knowledge of anyone having any problem with the name and I truly hope that I don’t have to change the name of my film,” he exclaimed.A highly disconcerted Amit sighed that there was no point to making films in India at all, if someone keeps having an issue about some aspect or the other. I just feel for my director, who worked tirelessly for two months on the post-production prints and other work.

Even as reports of certain religious factions having a problem with the use of Badrinath, a place of pilgrimage, in the context of a light-hearted rom-com film, the director denied the fact, adding that the name of the film would remain the same. An audience’s first idea of a film depends on the name of the film, so it’s terribly unfortunate that such a change needs to be made last minute. “The fact that this whole rigmarole is happening so late smells of opportunism on the web portal’s part. “It is a humorous take on the fact that even in this day and age, you need to run metalized Polyester film away and get married. It puts tremendous pressure on the producers,” laments the filmmaker.Director Karan Anshuman also added that it is highly suspicious that the website is expressing their dissent so late in the day, since the movie’s name had been public knowledge for a long time.Director Eeshwar Nivas, whose film Aman Ki Asha had to be renamed Total Siyappa in 2014, sympathises with the plight of the Running Shaadi team.

A lot of thought goes into giving any film the right name and to change a name, would be a huge problem. Amit Sadh, who is playing the male lead in the film, on his part, confirmed that the film is now set to be called Running Shaadi. Originally, we were supposed to work it out with them, but at the last moment, it did not work out as we had thought and the name had to be changed,” he recalls. “The name of a film is its identifying characteristic..Jolly LLB 2 posterThis is not the first time that Shoojit has gotten into trouble over a name, with his 2010 film Madras Cafe, also having faced trouble. “The name of a film is a brand.He adds that he is usually very picky with titles himself, but that some creative freedom should be allowed to filmmakers when it comes to the names of films as well as other aspects. It’s just a lot of harassment for my director, and I truly feel for him,” he added. It was originally supposed to be named ‘Jaffna’, but the title was deemed to be offensive to the people of Sri Lanka