The recent Simmba trailer has got more eyeballs for the fact
that it seems to be heavily inspired from Temper a south movie. In fact for
some time now South movies are being remade into hindi and though not so
noticed Hindi movies are getting remade in south too, in case you are not aware
A Wednesday, Tumhari Sulu and a few others are attempted down south already.
There was however a time in the 1980s which was heralded by
the potboiler makers of that decade. They recycled a long forgotten or not so
forgotten Bollywood classic again into a superhit and in the process we got
some of our biggest stars of the 1980s who reinvented their career and some of
the biggest production house of today found roots then through these movies.
These movies were then ,interestingly dismissed as flukes by critics but today
they are all classics we swear by.
It all started with the unexpected super success of Pyar
Jhukta Nahi, Mithun’s career was almost but over and the heady days of Disco
Dancer were long forgotten. The movie
was a remake of the 1977 classic Aa Gale Lag Ja. This movie was produced by an
unkown name then KC Bokadia. The movie smashed one record after the other and
not just became the biggest hit of 1985 but started a golden run for Mithun at
the box office,which at one point of time made him next only to Amitabh. As
amazing coincidences go you will again find shades of Pyar Jhukta Nahi in Raja
Hindustani the Aamir Khan superhit.
Mithun’s second contribution to this trend was the revenge
thriller called Aandhi Toofan, completely inspired by Sholay. This one had Hema
Malini playing the role of Thakur and the director in an interesting twist had the villains as a biker gang. The movie
had Mithun and Shatrughan Sinha in a Jodi that looked heavily inspired from Jai
and Veeru. The movie did not please the critics but rocked the box office. This
one was the second production attempt of a man called Pahlaj Nihalani , he
found his way from this movie.
Paap Ki Duniya – Pahlaj Nihalani once again produced a movie
which was heavily inspired from the Manmohan Desai classic called Parvarish. Where
a bandit kidnaps and exchanges his son with the son of a cop. This was the classic story of good finally
winning against the bad. It had Sunny Deol and Chunkey Pandey playing the two
lost sons. The movie was one of the biggest hits of that year.
Mitti aur Sona – Pahlaj Nihalani could not have more of the
remake formula and nor did the audience appear thirsty, this one was also a
surprise hit for Chunky Pandey as a solo hero. This one was a remake of the
Navin Nishchal starrer called Hanste Zakhm and Bappi Lahiri’s songs were party
favourites.
Mr.India - Very few
would know this but this biggest classic from science fiction genre of the
1980s was inspired from Mr.X in Bombay a Kishore Kumar classic. Salim Javed had
to struggle to find a hero for this one and even Amitabh rejected it. This one
finally found a taker in Anil Kapoor and this one launched Boney Kapoor into
one of biggest producers of the then Bollywood.
Teri Meherbaniyan – The 1980s had a competition of milking
old stories between KC Bokadia and Nihalani and this one was from Bokadia. This
superhit where a dog avenges his master’s death from his killers was heavily
lifted from Yash Chopra superhit Noorie. As coincidences go , in both the
movies the leading lady was Poonam Dhillon. This one also started the trend of
one compulsory animal in a lot of movies to come. Labrador as a must have pet
trend can be blamed or credited to this movie.
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak – The biggest contribution to remake
banao paisa kamao trend of the 1980s came from Mansoor Khan. It launched a
smiling young man on the screen who rules till date – Aamir Khan. The movie found its inspiration from the
other bollywood classics like Laila Majnu and Heer Ranjha where the primary
plot point was death of the couple in the climax as the zaalim zamaana won’t
agree. We will need three pages to write
about the careers this one launched.
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