National award winning Tamil film Pithamagan is likely to be remade in Hindi soon. Director Satish Kaushik, who has earlier remade Bala's Sethu with Salman Khan, has bagged the remake rights of the film. Though the star cast is not yet decided there are reports that the director is keen on roping Bollywood's hit machine Salman Khan in the lead.

Pithamagan is about the unlikely friendship between Chithan (Vikram) who is orphaned at a young age, devoid of all human contact. lives on his animal instincts and seeks out a living as a graveyard caretaker and Sakthi (Suriya) the conman.