For the primary time within the historical past of Indian cinema, an Indian movie is being remade in Korean. South Korea’s Anthology Studios and India’s Panorama Studios have collaborated for the remake of the Drishyam franchise in South Korea. Panorama Studios is backed by producer Kumar Mangat Pathak, whereas Anthology Studios is based by former Warner Bros. native Korean manufacturing head, Choi Jae-won, Parasite fame Song Kang-ho and acclaimed director Kim Jee-woon.
The announcement was made on the India Pavilion on Sunday in the course of the ongoing Cannes Film Festival the place each the studio heads Pathak and Choi have been current.
Drishyam is the 2013 Malayalam crime thriller starring Mohanlal. The movie revolves round Georgekutty, a cable TV operator whose easy life takes a darkish flip after his household will get by accident concerned within the dying of Varun Prabhakar, the son of the IG Geetha Prabhakar.
The movie was a large success and has spawned a number of blockbuster remakes in a number of languages–Drishya (2014) in Kannada starring Ravichandran, Drushyam (2014) in Telugu that includes Venkatesh, Papanasam (2015) in Tamil starring Kamal Haasan, in Hindi as Drishyam (2015) with Ajay Devgn and in Sinhala (Sri Lanka) as Dharmayuddhaya (2017), starring Jackson Anthony. The movie additionally has a Chinese remake named Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019) which stars Xiao Yang.
Korean movies are continuously remade in India; latest examples embody the Kartik Aaryan-starring Dhamaka, an adaptation of The Terror Live, Bharat (Ode to My Father), and the upcoming movie Blind, starring Sonam Kapoor, which can also be a remake of the 2011 movie Blind. According to the makers, that is the primary time an Indian movie has been formally remade in Korea.
Excited concerning the collaboration, Choi additional said, “The remake has higher significance as the primary main co-production between Korea and India. Through our partnership, we can deliver the perfect of each Indian and Korean cinema and make a significant remake that’s as wonderful as the unique.”
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