Kamal Haasan starrer Thoonga Vanam covers an entirely new gamut of cinematic expression, not just for Tamil cinema, but Indian cinema as well. It is now learnt that a Hindi remake of Thoonga Vanam is being planned with Kamal in the lead.
The actor clarifies, “I’d like to correct you. It’s not Thoonga Vanam that’s being remade into Hindi. It’s the French film Nuit Blanche (Sleepless Night) that is being remade into Hindi. My Thoonga Vanam is a remake of the same French film. I had offered to make a simultaneous Hindi version for the Bollywood producer who owns the rights of the Hindi remake. But I think he wanted to make it with some top Bollywood star.”
Now we hear the Hindi remake will star Kamal Haasan after all. Says Kamal, “We’ve deviated substantially from the French original also. That big hand-to-hand fight between Trisha and me was not there in Nuit Blanche.”
Kamal encountered serious roadblocks from the film trade . “They say, ‘Oh, Thoonga Vanam is a good film. But it’s not Sholay’. But why should it be Sholay? Why can’t we assess judge and praise efforts to make a different kind of cinema within the commercial context?”
The actor clarifies, “I’d like to correct you. It’s not Thoonga Vanam that’s being remade into Hindi. It’s the French film Nuit Blanche (Sleepless Night) that is being remade into Hindi. My Thoonga Vanam is a remake of the same French film. I had offered to make a simultaneous Hindi version for the Bollywood producer who owns the rights of the Hindi remake. But I think he wanted to make it with some top Bollywood star.”
Now we hear the Hindi remake will star Kamal Haasan after all. Says Kamal, “We’ve deviated substantially from the French original also. That big hand-to-hand fight between Trisha and me was not there in Nuit Blanche.”
Kamal encountered serious roadblocks from the film trade . “They say, ‘Oh, Thoonga Vanam is a good film. But it’s not Sholay’. But why should it be Sholay? Why can’t we assess judge and praise efforts to make a different kind of cinema within the commercial context?”
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