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thanks wayanadan

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innathe TOI adil avarude logo undallo

add b4 elecn results



ads after election results

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this was the mds last tweet......
dont knw whetehr he was mentioning abt results or abt cloud nine


dhayaalagiri Dhayanidhi Alagiri
: will bounce back !!! Strong n hard !!!
16 May

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this was the mds last tweet......
dont knw whetehr he was mentioning abt results or abt cloud nine


dhayaalagiri Dhayanidhi Alagiri
: will bounce back !!! Strong n hard !!!
16 May

it was abt election for sure...innathe TOI paper adil cloudnine logo undu....i saw it

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it was abt election for sure...innathe toi paper adil cloudnine logo undu....i saw it

onnu post cheyavo????
Plz

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On a remake spree

A spurt of remakes have hit Tamil cinema, as Chennai Times finds out…

Rohit Panikker




The Tamil film industry is no stranger to seasonal trends. The usual order of the day is to latch on to a popular trend and then come out with an entire range of films that seem like they have come out of a factory line. For a while, it was raw, rural subjects that ruled Kollywood. While other southern film industries like Malayalam and Telugu are still dwelling on the sequel mania, Tamil has moved into a new arena — remakes. Remakes like Vaanam and upcoming films Nanban and Vosthi are proof that the trend is catching on. Even as Tamil cinema continues to churn out remakes, the latest news to hit Kollywood is that Karthi’s superhit Siruthai will be remade by Prabhu Deva in Bollywood!
Most top actors in Kollywood have tried out remakes. Some of Superstar Rajnikanth’s biggest hits have been remakes, including Chandramukhi (Manichithrathazhu), Muthu (Thenmanvin Kombathu), Baasha (Hum) and Padikkathavan (Kuddhar). On top of the list would be Don (197, which must hold a record for having the most number of remakes! So, what’s the idea of making audiences watch the same content repeatedly? “There is a difference between a copy and a remake. A remake is when filmmakers purchase the rights of the original movie and then give due credit to the people who actually scripted it, while copying a film, claiming ‘inspiration’ without giving due credit, is just plain wrong and cheating your audience,” explains actor and producer Dinesh Panickker, whose first production in Malayalam, Kireedam, was remade in Tamil with Ajith, in Kannada with Shivrajkumar and in Hindi with Jackie Shroff. Movies ‘inspired’ from Hollywood are not new either. While rumours are spinning that KV Anand’s floating horse Ko will be remade in Hindi, there are parallels being drawn between the main plot of the film to that of a Hollywood film (State of Play). “It’s interesting to see how filmmakers adapt these stories for Indian sensibilities and manage to bring in the local flavour,” says movie buff Karthik Krishnan, “But, it’s heartbreaking when movies like Amal Neerad’s 2010 film Anwar claim to be inspired from true events and end up blatantly copying scenes and dialogues from Traitor (200,” he adds. The trend of remakes is nothing new, states Abey Abraham, an aspiring filmmaker working on his first project. “Indian cinema has been borrowing internally for ages,” he explains. “For example, we have Thillu Mullu, which was a remake of Gol Maal (1979), which was again remade into Simhavalan Menon in Malayalam. Once in a while, a remake is a fun exercise, which is why it will be interesting to see how remakes like Vosthi will turn out.”
rohit.panikker@timesgroup.com


Salman Khan in Dabangg; (right) Simbu in his Vosthi avatar






A still from Vaanam

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itha inathe TOI ad same ad was in deccan chronicle too

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thanks ram

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itha inathe TOI ad same ad was in deccan chronicle too

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