The Sambar Effect

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Influences influence everyone and saying that an original creation wasn’t influenced would be an untruth.
But in today’s world, people have gone ahead and distorted the concept of influence. Now people are blatantly copying creations and putting them up for people to see in the name of “Remakes”.
Yes, I am talking about the new (?) trend in Bollywood to remake hit southern movies and rake in the moolah. Agreed, the ‘idea’ has been fruitful, but then how long does Bollywood expect people to fall for this ruse?
It’s not that remaking movies is a thing of today. There have been Hindi remakes done of movies in other languages in the past too. There have even been blatant copies where the makers didn’t even have the courtesy of mentioning the fact that they have been copied or rather lifted from other movies. But then with the passage of time, people woke up to this practice and started to criticize this style of movie-making. Then people started to remake movies and name the movie as an official remake of the original. This, however, was a move that was well-received.
Remakes date back to the days of yore, that is to say, at the time when the first Indian movies came on screen. Dadasaheb Phalke remade his movie Raja Harishchandra after its launch in 1913. Earlier Bengali and Marathi movies were a major source of inspiration for Bollywood movies. At that time, there were many movies which used storylines of regional language movies or made remakes of the originals. Movies like Woh Saat Din, Sadma, Ek Duje Ke Liye, Eeshwar proved to be successful, which were remakes of South Indian movies.
But of late, this style of movie making has become the standard norm for anyone who wants to make a successful and commercially hit movie. Movies Wanted, Rowdy Rathore, Singham, Housefull (1&2), Bodyguard, Force, Ready etc have been very successful with the average Bollywood movie-goer. Even now, there is a bevy of movies lined up which are going to be officially remade into Hindi. Movies like Thuppakki, Saamy, Okkadu, Kick etc are all going to be remade.
 Judging by the response people have given to these remakes, one can safely say that, the Sambar Effect is here to say…


(P.S. Naming the piece as Sambar Effect was done with a comic intention, my apologies to anyone who feels offended)

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