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I
have noticed a `remake´
fever pitching in through recent
articles published in Behindwoods,
thus I will add my piece of
the cake on what movies can
be made again in Kollywood,
taking a cue from Hollywood
and other woods! There have
been some really interesting
ideas coming in, but my suggestions
here are not focused only on
how interesting they would be,
but also in a sense as to how
much these movies could make
Tamil cinema a better place
to be.
Road to Perdition: Selvaraghavan-Vikram
- Daniel Balaji?
Underworld crime sagas have
always been a huge favorite
among Indian audiences, especially
in the south where rawness and
realism is associated. The film
is a poignant story of a father
trying all out to protect his
son, and in the process even
breaking his loyalty to his
own godfather. The morale of
the story is on the high side,
it is narrated by the son who
tells how his father desperately
did not want the son to become
another gunman like him. And
in the end, the son never fires
a bullet, and never touches
a gun after that. It needs a
genuinely talented director
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give
the film the proper Indianized
take, and given the nature of
it, it belongs to Selva Raghavan
with somebody like Madhavan
or Vikram playing Tom Hanks´
role. Daniel Balaji will be
an automatic choice for Daniel
Craig´s role, but it might
also be different to give it
to a new actor like Nithin Sathya
among others. However, I am
thinking of something novel,
and that is Shyam playing this
negative character. He is a
decent actor in need of a big
break. Daniel Balaji could play
the psychotic killer played
by Jude Law instead. Music completely
is up to the director, and it
is of paramount importance that
the film gets the casting of
the small kid right. Nataraja
Subramaniam is just so good
when it comes to handling the
camera for dark natured narratives,
thus his camerawork would compliment
the film brilliantly.
Stranger Than Fiction:
Venkat Prabhu-Madhavan- Priyamani?
If remade will create a new
trend of fresh comedy dramas
(which the industry is so lacking).
The premise is funny enough,
the lead man is a mechanical
office worker who suddenly hears
someone narrating his life details,
and telling us that he will
die soon. Desperate not to die,
the man tries to find the cause
of the voiceovers, and discovers
that he is a character from
the book of female novelist,
who always kills her lead character
at the end of her book, and
is currently struggling to find
a way to kill his character.
This discovery changes both
the novelist´s and the
man´s life drastically,
and the film has a positive
ending which also has a strong
theme on how we cherish our
life and how many of us are
being too pessimistic about
life. Venkat Prabhu is definitely
the man to make this movie,
with Madhavan being in the lead
role, but having someone like
Ajith doing the role will be
different yet realistic. Priyamani
has the perfect looks to play
Maggie Gyllenhall´s cute,
frank, yet unspectacular character
of a bakery woman. Shobana or
Nadiya would fit into the role
of the mid-age novelist.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang:
A.L Vijay, Vijay-Trisha?
A quirky crime thriller with
one of the most novel methods
of voiceovers in recent times,
this will be a unique yet commercially
entertaining film to watch in
Kollywood. It is about a young
thief who ends up being taken
in as a stand-by actor and later
gets dragged in by chance into
solving a high-profile murder
case in tinsel town along with
a detective and a beautiful
actress who was his childhood
love. The film´s voiceover
comes in a disorganized manner-
with the lead character constantly
criticizing his own self as
to how bad a narrator he is.
Vijay fits perfectly in the
lead role played by a quirky
`Ironman´ Robert Downey,
with Trisha definitely taking
the female lead as it has both
glamour and performative requirements.
Arjun would be a good cast in
Van Kilmer´s role of a
smart detective. A.L Vijay could
direct this film (I watched
Poi Solla Porom and I believe
he has the right talent within
him, especially with black comedy).
The Truman Show: Gautham-
Surya-Mohan Lal-Jyothika?
Andrew Niccol has written such
a great screenplay for this
film so it won´t do much
justice to `remake´ this
film but to slightly alter the
proceedings and retain the main
idea and theme of the movie
would be great. The film tells
the story of a man who realizes
his entire life has been a TV
show, and the ending has to
be one of the best endings ever
in cinema history- the hero
just opening the studio door
and walking outside despite
Ed Harris´ constant warnings
that the world outside is far
more ruthless than the safe
world that he has created for
Truman. While my previous three
suggestions are within a frame
of being realistically achievable
in Tamil cinema, Truman Show
is one of my more ambitious
hopefuls. Surya should play
Jim Carrey´s role, with
Mohan Lal playing Ed Harris´
role. Gautham would do well
to direct this film with A.R.
Rahman´s music. It would
definitely be nice if Jyothika
makes a comeback and plays Truman´s
long-lost love interest, the
very reason why Truman discovers
the truth behind his life.
Omkara: Bala- Siddharth
–Asin?
We have a great tragedy director
in the form of Bala. Let´s
given him an all-time tragedy
classic, Othello- and the results
will be at least phenomenal.
This does not necessarily have
to be a remake of `Omkara´,
it could be another adaptation
of Shakespeare´s Othello.
The setting definitely should
be in a village , playing to
Bala´s common territories,
with Vikram playing Lago hands
down. This would be one heck
of a casting coup. Surya should
play Othello, while Siddharth
(yes, from Boys) playing Cassio.
Desdemona belongs to Trisha
or Asin while Sneha should play
Vikram´s wife.
Regards,
Ram Anand (Malaysia)
ram_dhanush@hotmail.com
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