No more remakes please

Sandalwood is being plagued with remakes for the past few years. It seems that every other film that releases is the remake of a movie from another South Indian language. Cries for change from the audience, who are yearning to see some good original films, have been on the rise for the past few months and now, Sandalwood producer K. Manju has also come forward strongly against remakes.

In an interview with a leading daily, K. Manju said “It’s wrong to think that films that have been hits elsewhere will also score with the Kannada audiences. In these tough times, our heroes should instill confidence in their producers by making original films run.” He�added that the growing trend of remakes is ‘nauseating’.

Director Kavitha Lankesh also joins the anti-remake bandwagon. “Ever since it was recently declared that even remakes will be made 100% tax-free, everyone’s jumped onto the remake bandwagon,” says Kavitha.� She also mentions that although many people may not like the trend, there is no way we can stop them. “Creativity is at an all-time low because of these readymade scripts. However, there are no original scripts being written; so the only good thing about this abundance of remakes is that it’s providing people jobs,” she explains.