A film that went on to win the National Award for Best Hindi Film, Queen, also landed Kangana Ranaut the National Award for Best Actress in 2014.
Since then, remakes of Queen were announced in all four South Indian languages starting with Kajal Aggarwal for the Tamil version titled Paris Paris under Ramesh Aravind’s direction.
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— Paris Paris (@ParisParisFilm) September 25, 2018
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Ramesh Aravind has also simultaneously directed the Kannada version titled Butterfly with Parul Yadav in the lead role.
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— Butterfly Movie (@MovieButterfly) September 25, 2018
Meanwhile, the Telugu version titled That Is Mahalakshmi features Tamannaah taking on the lead role under Prashanth Varma’s direction.
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— That Is Mahalakshmi (@TiMTheFilm) September 25, 2018
Finally, Manjima Mohan is the female lead of the Malayalam Version titled Zam Zam under Neelakanta’s direction.
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— Zam Zam Movie (@zamzamthefilm) September 25, 2018