Okay, Bollywood has always been known for remaking films from Hollywood, South and other Asian cinema. In the past, our cinema was known to get away with this without many repercussions. However, with the world coming closer thanks to better connectivity and social media, it is easier for the makers of the original films to track if their stuff gets remade without permissions. So many of the Bollywood film-makers, while continuing to look beyond borders for inspirations, are now taking proper copyrights from the original property. So that's great! Jaws, Evil Dead, Basic Instinct, American Pie – 11 Cult Hollywood Movies That Bollywood Dared to Remake and You Never Even Noticed.
Now, let's talk about the remakes we have done in the past. Have we always gone ahead and did a frame-to-frame adaptation? Not exactly. In fact, Bollywood film-makers have always revised the script to suit the sensibilities of the audience here. That doesn't just mean placing the film's premise in an Indian setting. It also means that characters and plot points are tweaked to make things simpler. While the current era is Bollywood is more prone to experimenting in how it depicts its lead characters, in the past the lines between the good and the bad are not as blurred and are more than well-defined.
So many a time, a negative character or a psychopath who is the lead character in a Hollywood or a Southeast Asian movie often ends up getting sanitised in its Bollywood remake. We have 10 such examples below to back our point.
Sangharsh
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The Inspired Character: Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs
The Tanuja Chandra film is not exactly a complete remake of this Oscar-winning thriller. The adaptation takes huge liberties in how the lead characters are portrayed. Like Akshay Kumar's character is nothing like Anthony Hopkins' Lecter, who is a charming psychopath with cannibalistic pleasures, as dangerous as the killer, Jodie Foster's FBI agent is chasing. In Sangharsh, Kumar's character is jailed for being wrongly accused of a crime he didn't commit and in the end, sacrifices his life to save the woman he loves.
Zinda
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