Express News Service
It s hard not to wonder why we need remakes in this age of subtitles. A simple answer would be: not many have the privilege of reading subtitles. But very rarely, it s also true that some films are so good that they need to be made more than once. That s why Infernal Affairs (2002) was made again as Departed (2006) and Abre Los Ojos (1997) as Vanilla Sky (2001).
That s also why, back home, we still keep making different iterations of Baashha (1995). The Telugu film C/O Kancharapalem has that one great idea that easily renders itself to different versions, and hence, the Tamil remake C/O Kadhal, directed by debutant Hemambar Jasit, works.