To add insult to injury, Hindi copies regularly out-earn their South Indian siblings. The chances of an original script attracting big money are much lower today than in the past. Bollywood’s big productions and A-listers associated with these remakes are preferring certainty over originality. The French short film L'Accordeur (“The Piano Tuner') inspired Andhadhun (2018), Spanish movie Contratiempo (“The Invisible Guest') was remade as Badla (2019), and Korean film Ode to My Father led to the Salman Khan-starrer Bharat (2019). Yet, looking overseas for inspiration isn’t a goner yet it’s only Hollywood that’s losing appeal.

Why aluminium prices are unlikely to fall The gleaming promise of moonlighting employers fail to see The right and wrong in Nitin Gadkari’s ethanol push A string of Hindi remakes is in the works based on megahits such as Vikram Vedha (Tamil), Anniyan (Tamil), Chatrapathi (Telugu), and Ayyappanum Koshiyum (Malayalam). The success of Kabir Singh (2019), a remake of Arjun Reddy (Telugu), started a gold rush. Around 40% of recent commercially successful remakes have been based on South Indian films, especially Telugu and Tamil ones.

After decades of ripping off Hollywood scripts, Hindi cinema is looking south.

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