Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has taken to social media to lambast the failure of ‘Jersey’ starring actors Shahid Kapoor, Mrunal Thakur and Pankaj Kapur.
Varma went on to add, "If Nani ‘s original JERSEY from Telugu was dubbed and released it would have costed the producers just 10 lakhs whereas the remake in Hindi costed 100 cr resulting in losing enormous money,time, effort and face (sic)."
In his next tweet, he wrote, “After the monstrous successes of dubbed films like #Pushpa , #RRR and #KGF2 , no south film with good content will be sold for remake rights as even both the content and regional stars are being liked by the Hindi audiences #DeathOfRemakes (sic).”
“Bollywood will be now getting ducked from both front and back as they neither seem to know how to make superhits nor can they hope to survive on remaking south films because nobody will sell them REMAKE rights #DeathOfRemakes (sic),” further added Varma.
“Moral of the story is it’s smart to release dubbed films instead of remaking them because it’s obvious that the audiences are ok with any face or any subject from anywhere as long as it interests them #DeathOfRemakes (sic),” he added next in his series of tweets.
Varma concluded his series of tweets with a tongue-in-cheek comment. "TELUGU and KANNADA films have INFECTED Hindi films like a COVID VIRUS..Hoping that BOLLYWOOD will soon come up with a VACCINE (sic)," concluded Varma.
South releases in the past few months, like ‘Pushpa’, ‘RRR’ and ‘KGF: Chapter 2’, released for a Pan-India audience in varied Indian languages. They all managed to take the box-office by storm. In this year, the only few Hindi films that have done good business are ‘The Kashmir Files’, which also didn’t have any big star, and ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ headlined by actress Alia Bhatt.