Alaya F’s ‘U-Turn‘ will be released directly on OTT. The remake of the 2016 Kannada thriller will be premiering on Zee5 on the 28th of April.
Alaya F is having a great run in Bollywood and with last year’s ‘Freddy’ she had quite a success. This year, in Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Almost Pyaar With DJ Mohabbat’ her performance was praised by audiences and critics even though the movie could not do that much at the box office.
The original Kannada movie that came out in 2016 told the story of a young reporter who is investigating the continuous deaths of trafficking rule offenders. It was directed by Pawan Kumar and starred actors like Shraddha Srinath, Roger Narayan and Radhika Chetan. It was remade into Malayalam in 2017 with the name of ‘Careful’. In 2018, Pawan Kumar remade the movie into a Tamil-Telugu bilingual movie with the same name. It was then remade into Sinhali, Filipino and Bengali as well. Finally the movie is getting its Bollywood remake. U-Turn is a film that is remade many times and has reached its expected audiences. It can be considered as a risk to direct it in Hindi as well as the audiences of the Hindi belt have already seen it in dubs.
The original film had a supernatural turn and it will be interesting if the makers make some changes to the story and give some logical explanations to the plotline or if they change the plot somehow. As the story is known to many, the thriller effect will be lesser than the original so it would be better to make some changes.
It seems to be a good decision to directly release the film on OTT as it is a risky project and the remakes in Bollywood are not doing quite well nowadays. U-Turn will premiere on Zee5 on the 28th of April.