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By: Malayalam Cinema 2010 - First Quarter Roundup | varnachitram

Malayalam Cinema 2010 - First Quarter Roundup | varnachitram — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:49:18 +0000

[...] Pramani which was a poor man’s version of Parunthu, which was a poor man’s version of Vargam, which was a poor man’s version of Devasuram. Prithviraj meanwhile acted in a movie called [...]

By: Parunthu review | varnachitram

Parunthu review | varnachitram — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:12:51 +0000

[...] when one of Ranjith’s protege’s, M Padmakumar, gets obsessed with this script? You get Vargam, which is a clone of this movie. The setting was different, but direction was perfect. A young [...]

By: James

James — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:50:10 +0000

Oh yea!

That’s what Sergio Leone did too…copied of a Kurosawa movie.

His A Fistful of Dollars (first of the Dollars trilogy)
starring Clint Eastwood was the remake of Yojimbo starring Toshiro Mifune. At least Kurosawa sued against Leone for doing that and won the case.

and of course John Sturges’s western film The Magnificent Seven (remake of Seven Samurai).

By: James

James — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:40:59 +0000

“I agree. Vargam is more like Star Wars with Luke (Prithviraj), Leia (Renuka Menon), Darth Vader (Devan) and R2D2 (Vijayaraghavan).”

I disagree…

you see Leia and Luke were siblings.

And R2D2 (who is not even human) has a different personality from Vijayaraghavan’s character.

Any way, the director and lead actor of Vargam admit
that their film is a re-imagining of Devasuram.

…………………….

And since we mentioned Star Wars (the first – Episode IV)
it would be good to look into Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress
the basic plot of Star Wars (1977) was lifted by George Lucas
from Kurosawa’s film, since Lucas was a big Kurosawa fan.
Lucas has even used the frame wipe editing from Kurosawa’s films.

At the end of the day…in both of these situations the same thing is happening…

By: James

James — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:31:42 +0000

“Prithiviraj says in the interview that Vargam is an adaptation of Devasuram. See 3: 57 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiskFG8yKhk ”

I think the words “remake” or “re-imagining” would have been
more appropriate for Prithviraj to use, if he did use it.

Devasuram is a film…not a book or novel.

By: Ashok

Ashok — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:36:15 +0000

Prithiviraj says in the interview that Vargam is an adaptation of Devasuram. See 3: 57 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiskFG8yKhk

By: Revisiting Vargam | varnachitram

Revisiting Vargam | varnachitram — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:38:43 +0000

[...] In our review of Vargam, three years back, we wrote Though the story looks interesting there is nothing new in it for it is an exact copy of Devasuram, including the climax scene. The director of this movie, Padmakumar worked as an assistant to Renjith who wrote Devasuram.[Review : Vargam | varnachitram] [...]