After the success of Wanted, Ready and Bodyguard, Salman Khan has been labeled as someone who only acts in remakes of south Indian hits. He has been accused of playing it safe, by doing films that have already proven to be hugely successful at the ticket-window.
“King of Remakes”, “Remake Khan” are names that are often used to bring him down. But a quick glance at some of the films that he has done in the last 5 years, reveals a different story.
- Salaam-e-Ishq (2007) – Original script
- Partner (2007) – Inspired by Hollywood film Hitch
- Marigold (2007) – Original script
- Saawariya (2007) – Original script
- God Tussi Great Ho (2008) – Inspired by Hollywood film Bruce Almighty
- Hello (2008) – Based on Chetan Bhagat’s Novel
- Heroes (2008) – Original Script
- Yuvvraaj (2008) – Original Script
- Wanted (2009) – Remake of Telugu film Pokiri
- Main Aurr Mrs Khanna (2009) – Original Script
- London Dreams (2009) – Original Script
- Veer (2010) – Original Script
- Dabangg (2010) – Original Script
- Ready (2011) – Remake of Telugu film Ready
- Bodyguard (2011) – Remake of Malayalam film Bodyguard
- Ek Tha Tiger (2012) – Original Script
- Dabangg 2 (2012) – Original Script
- Sher Khan (2012) – Original Script
To sum it up, Salman has been a part of 3 remakes in the last 5 years, 2 films inspired by Hollywood movies and 13 films with original scripts. What’s more, none of his upcoming films are remakes.
Also, it’s not Salman alone who has appeared in remakes. Have a look!
- Shahrukh Khan – Don was a remake of an Amitabh Bachchan classic with the same title. The SRK produced Billu, which featured the actor in an extended special appearance, was also a Malayalam remake.
- Aamir Khan – One of Aamir’s biggest hits in the last decade – Ghajini – was a Tamil remake.
- Akshay Kumar – Has appeared in 3 remakes in the last 5 years – Khatta Meetha, Bhool Bhulaiyaa and Heyy Babyy. His upcoming film Rowdy Rathore too is a remake of Telugu hit Vikramarkudu.
- Hrithik Roshan – Who once vowed to never be a part of remakes, will be seen in Agneepath which again is an official remake of an Amitabh Bachchan classic with the same title. To be fair to Hrithik, the story seems to have been changed and the treatment is very different too!
- Ajay Devgan – One of Ajay’s biggest solo-hits too is a remake – Singham!
Remakes DO NOT guarantee success and attributing Salman’s success to remakes alone is unfair! Do tell us what you think, in the comments section below.
Update: A few are asking about Sajid Nadiadwala’s Kick. Agreed that Kick is a remake of a Telugu film. But it’s not 100% confirmed yet. Shirish Kunder was supposed to direct it, but he has now backed out. Unconfirmed reports say, Surender Reddy who directed the Telugu version will be directing the Hindi one too.
Still, it’s unfair to single-out Salman Khan, when half the industry is remaking films. Rowdy Rathore, Agneepath, Ek Deewana Tha, Bol Bachchan, Son of Sardar, Players etc are all remakes.
partner is total copy of hitch.maine hitch partner se pehle hi dekh rakhi thi
bazigar @ re-make bana kar bhi hit karne wale ko re-make khan kehte he.
salman khan said he don’t care about awards bcoz he knows he is re-make khan n the real king is shahrukh.
sunny deol@gatak@
shirt utar ne ka itna hi sokh he to re-make ka sahara lena chor de. Re-make khan.
if salman khan is real king than tell me y when srk n sallu dose movie together n in those movie srk in lead roll n sallu side roll. Karan-arjun movie srk had better roll than sallu. Kuch kuch hota he also, hum tumhare he sanam also.
srk dont copy any south movie because he is real actor of bollywood mean”sab ka baap hai shahrukh”
@salmanrocks, i didnt post any thing senseless yet , what iam saying is salman always play safe by remaking south movies or hollywood movies , its high time that he should take some risk and deliver like a real dabangg khan , south me already hit hua movies ko hit karana utna bada baat nahi even ajay devgan bhi singham ko blockbuster banaya tha kam se kam south film ki story idea pakadke ek naya film banana chahiye , scene to scene copy karna bahut cheap hai
aur ek baat salman sirf masala movies banata hai isliye unko itna acha opening milta , tum salman ko pasand karta hai aur me sharukh ko sabko apna choice hota hai magar me yeh kah raha hu salman 20 years kam karke itna kuch mila aur bollywood ko oonchayi par lejane keliye kuch nahi karta bas remake pe remake banata hi chala jaat hai,abh salman ko aisa film banane ki koshish karna chahiye ki thoda saal ke baad hollywood bollywood ke film se inspire ho jaye
Sab se favourite koun 2001 to 2008 actor was Sharukh khan and 2009 Hritik and 2010 Akshay and 2011 Sharukh khan.It means that SRK is the King of bollywood.My friend type on your net King of bollywood then watch who is the king
Salman khan winner best actor award
Salman khan ne itne good film nikale like partner maine pyar kiya .many blockbuster movie.to usko filmfare award milna chaiye .aur salman khan ko best actor award milna chaiye
good news for srk fans @ srk sign telugu, tamil, all time blockbuster movie ! Ramanna ! Which had reliesed in 2oo2. Now salman will see if srk do remake than what business come. The movie will direct by gajini director. N the director goes for srk in lead roll.
The idiot saying srk will release his film on EID tell him to first beat the record of ready of non-holiday period,then we can talk
ready is the worst film ever produced in bollywood
khabir srk told in his interew i don’t want to realies my film on eid coz salman friends like to watch salman movie on eid so i can’t go over salman fans. Let’s salman n salman fans enjoy eid.
Khabir srk got guts that’s y he didn’t lay down to say soory to bal thakre.
salman remake khan doesn’t have the guts to act in meaningful movies with original sctipts like srk and that’s the reason why he is acting in south remake hits and that too only masala films and only addition is one or two garbage songs like dhinka chika or character dheela….bullshit…., it’s as simple as that. SRK is not afraid to experiment, he has guts to act in various roles be it negative, action thriller, suspense, drama, period films, art films, pyscho thriller, sports related films etc.. and maximum no. of times he is sucessful and this is called the power of srk, a self made man and hence is called king of bollywood…one man army.
every star acts in a remake but salmaan khan saved his carrier only with the help of remakes while SRK is going strong with original scripts since DDLJ.
hahaha!! his next 3 films r also remakes only!! Ek tha tiger is DHOOKUDU ! Dabangg 2 is kick! ! She is Kandireega! :D
Salman is king in orignal and remakes. He is the super star of hindi film industry.
He is alone crowd puller at boxoffice, be it remake or orignal.
Shahrukh did remake of malyalam film kadha porimbal, that’s flopped.
Salman rocks koi kuchh bhi kahe he is the only Tiger , Sher , Dabangg Khan in bollywood ……hahaahaha
Srk Fans Are decline after Ra one he is doing over acting Srk best performance is chak de india
Jo b ho koi kuch b kaha salman is now the only king of bollywood. wait for ek tha tiger and kick
I love allways all Flim of Salman & SRK
mohabbatein – remake of dead poet’s society
KKHH – sleepless in seattle
devdas – remake of many versions
don – remake of don
KANK – remake of closer
Ra One – All hollywood action films together
n who says Salman is remake khan?
I think you forgot the remakes he has done in his career not just over the last couple of years! Also don’t forget that his superhit films are mostly all remakes and copies, most of his films which are originals are flops.
Heroes, hello, Saawariya are hardly Salman movies if anything he appeared in them as a guest or shared role. Your dry reaching if you listed Hello and SAawariya to prove something without the right facts
Out of the other 12 movies you listed which have been released 5 are remakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in a short period of time that is shocking
And out of the 7 non remakes 2 were flops
Face it the movies salman is famous for are majority remakes he is a copy cat
The only thing I give him credit for is having good music in his films
people do remakes
bt not like Sallu does
the 3 films he remaked gave him the identity tat he hav today
look at the original scripts
Marigold : the disastrous disaster bollywood have ever scene
veer: flop
yuvraaj : flop
heroes : flop
god tussi : flop
london dreamz: flop
so wat can we account for frm this
Correction!!
Ek tha tiger is the remake of a malayalam movie-ANWAR
Ha ha ha ! 70% of salman khan flims are remake.I think author also doen;t know about salman khan copy cat flims….Nonsese…..Sorry for being too rude…I hate him because he has no feeling…Bringing heroine duplicate is his job.He brought both aisqariya rai and katrina kaif duplicate.
He is
COpycate
DUplicator
atheist
I love salman khan.
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