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Ekk Deewana Tha - Pacier Remake

Damn them Hindi crtics. They know how to turn off the viewer completely. Never mind how Taran Adarsh, Rajeev Masand and these so called “critics” lamblasting yet another movie. Having seen VTV like 3-5 times prior to the remake, I expected a word by word translation based on how Gautham sir. From watching the remake, I was completely taken aback and you should follow my bullet points to see why.

ADR in some places faltered from Prateik’s side (Prateik goofs up in the beginning saying Duniya prior to saying the much celebrated phrase, “Of all the girls in the world, why Jessie”.)

The Hindi remake did a fabulous job of compressing the scenes into the song sequences. By the way, the run time is at 2hrs and 16 min. The Tamil original was 2hrs and 46min. I was relieved when scenes post the “Kadhal Desam” BGM were chopped of completely. Completely unneeded in the original and instead, Gautham jumps to the pre-Phoolon Jaisi stuff. Major props.

 Difference between Hindi cinema and Southern cinema is the narrative. In Hindi, we assume the audiences are sophisticated with their hipster angrez (English), western attire and their love for muscular smucks while in Tamil, it’s all about being straightforward. 

The non-linearity sprinkled throughout the second half worked. Especially the emotional parts, because in Tamil, I was ready to throw my chair at Silambarasan & Trisha for dragging the reels into  “You don’t like f****g films, what kind of logic is that scene.” In Hindi, it was a matter of emotional substance and struggle for compliance.

 Lots and lots of improvisation. Manu Rishi is first-rate here. His dialogues don’t go overboard (yes some are taken from the original, again Menon’s inputs), but offers some fresh points too. The Mallu scene at Kallipurakal is completely new. George uncle does his usual scthick but talks Hindi with an accent and asks Manu Rishi for the correct grammar. On Manu Rishi, he and Ganesh are two seperate entities. Both were superb in their respective roles.

Not sure why the film wasn’t liked by the Mumbaites. In fact, the film was tailored and adjusted to their tastes. Would you rather watch a shoddy smug Imran Khan (for the nth time) play the loser hero opposite to stick statue, Kareena? Or perhaps say Salman Khan murder another Southern remake with his “Rajniism and 3rd grade acting? Look at the reviews for Bodyguard, Ready and Singham and see the films. No big acting scope or script sense but because of star power, they get the results desired. Classic bias over Stars. Prateik is completely underrated here. In fact, I liked that his character isn’t aggressive like Simbu’s version. I guess chicks didn’t like Amy as much as they praised Trisha. To be fair, we should give credit to singer Chinmayi for her dubbing work. She’s the real heroine of the film. Not Trish, not Sam nor Amy.

Rahman as usual good work on improvising the BGM from the tamil original.

Rating -  3/5

I felt more relieved to see this in Hindi than I did in Tamil, it’s short and to the point. Yes, the story isn’t ohoho great, but the performances make up for it.