VV goes to Bollywood? - Deccan Chronicle

When it comes to Bollywood remakes of Tamil blockbusters, high-action macho police stories find their easy way into B’town.

Remember how Suriya’s Khakka Khakka directed by Gautham Menon, Suriya’s Singham was remade in Hindi with the same name and Ajay Devgan in the cop’s role.

Now, the big news is that Gautham Menon’s yet another super hit cop story Vettayadu Vilayadu, which starred Kamal Haasan and Jothika, is going to B’town soon and Shahrukh Khan is touted to play Kamal’s character in the film.

According to yet another source, Manickam Narayanan of Seventh Channel, who produced the high action Vettayadu Vilayadu, has already dubbed it in Hindi and titled it The Hunt. Since he wants to release it directly, the possibility of remaking VV is bleak.

When DC contacted Manickam, he did agree that VV has been dubbed in Hindi. “I could not use The Hunt as the title because someone had already registered it with the Mumbai Producers Council.

So, I changed mine to The Smart Hunt and am still contemplating on releasing the dubbed version.

Gautham approached me recently and suggested that instead of going in for a dubbed version, we remake Vettayadu Vilayadu jointly since the story has pan India appeal. It is still at the discussion stage.”

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