As per media reports, Aamir Khan is set to remake the Tamil superhit film ‘Maharaja’ in Hindi and he will probably be playing the lead role. The more fans expect something original and unique from Aamir Khan, the more he continues to take resort in remakes of already popular films.
Audiences made it very clear that remaking a movie as popular as ‘Forrest Gump’ was a huge mistake and now Aamir Khan seems to be repeating the same mistake with ‘Maharaja’. The movie had done wonderful business at the box office and is received with humongous praises from fans and critics alike and it is no wonder that the movie had a large viewership from the Hindi-speaking belt as well. In case of ‘Vikram Vedhaa’, another movie from Vijay Sethupathi, we had seen the remake flop badly at the box office even though it was sufficiently well-executed and also promoted with great efforts. The simple thing that attracts people to theaters now is an unknown plot. This is why ‘Drishyam 2’ succeeds even after being a remake, because the movie was not available to watch in Hindi before the remake. ‘Maharaja’ is a thriller with a nuanced non-linear storyline where the climax has an integral plot twist that makes the movie stand where it is. With that plot twist known to all, there is doubt that anybody will like to watch the movie in theaters.
The credibility of Aamir Khan as the Mr. Perfectionist of Bollywood is waning now. And yet he decides to remake the Spanish movie ‘Campeones’. And now the news of ‘Maharaja’ comes literally as a shock to fans. Vijay Sethupathi and Anurag Kashyap have done justice to the characters as Nithilan Swaminathan has done to the direction. There is little there to improve and no more twists to intrigue audiences and lure them to theaters.