This uncrowned king of remakes has often wowed us with his films. South remakes became popular after Ravi Kinnagi and Raj Chakraborty, among others, started making them. My films Sathi and Sanghi were inspired by south films, but they were certainly not frame-by-frame copies. It was around 2000 that directors shifted to south remakes. Then in 1991, Motiur Rahman Panu from Bangladesh made Beder Meye Josna, which was the frame-by-frame remake of a famous Bangladeshi film by the same name. I guess Swapan Saha’s Bhai Amar Bahi was the remake of a Bangladeshi film. There was a time when Bangladeshi films were remade by Bengal filmmakers in a big way. We would love it if he stuns us yet again. We are looking forward to the Sudeshna Roy-Abhijit Guha film where he's paired opposite Subhasree. How did an actor as promising as Soham end up with such films? Looks like the industry fell short of good scripts to accommodate him. His films Faande Poriya Boga Kaande Re, Le Halua Le and Bangali Babu English Mem tanked at the box office and Soham quickly lost touch with good scripts. REMAKE FOOTNOTES: Faande Poriya Boga Kaande Re, 2011 Le Halua Le, 2012Ī terrific actor (made evident in films like Prem Amar, Bojhena Shey Bojhena and Amanush), Soham too gave in to the lure of remakes. REMAKE FOOTNOTES: CHALLENGE, 2009 PARAN JAI JALIYA RE, 2009 BOLO NA TUMI AAMAR, 2010 YODDHA: THE WARRIOR, 2014 But for now, let's have a look at the Remake Rajas of the industry -actors and directors who have been part of the most number of south films with Bengali dialogues. But are the Tolly poster boys and the directors who thrive on remakes ready to move on to original content? Only time will tell. From Kaushik Ganguly to Shiboprosad Mukherjee -flag bearers of original cinema in Bengal -to veterans like Soumitra Chatterjee and Prosenjit Chatterjee, all agree that the days of shoddy copy-paste jobs without an iota of creative input are numbered. One can't get a creative high by simply playing a DVD and replicating scene it plays, "Srijit Mukherji every had said, while lashing out at the culture of remakes during CT's #TollyAgainstRemakes campaign.Rituparna Sengupta, too, had hit out against the format, saying, "Remakes are almost plagiarism." Over the past two weeks, Tolly veterans have spoken against the very idea of south remakes, asserting that it's doing the industry more harm than good.
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