6 Remakes Of Bollywood Classics That Were Painfully Bad!

Bollywood has been promptly taking inspiration from Hollywood films to remake their films here, then there are popular South Indian films and other regional projects to remake. If ruining the experiences of some great originals was less, some film makers went back in history and tried to remakes some big Bollywood classics and failed miserably at it. No amount of 21^st century technology magic could replace these originals especially these not so impressive remakes.

Take a look at these Bollywood films that were remade years later and they were gallant failures.

Himmatwala – The 1983 Bollywood blockbuster, starring Sridevi and Jeetendra was one of the most memorable films of the 80’s. Probably that’s why Sajid Khan could not contain the urge to copy the film screen by screen in 2013 and ruined it so completely for us! The utter mockery of the original coupled by poor performances by Ajay Devgn and Tamanah the film was a mega flop of the year.

Sholay – As much as we rejoiced after watching the original over and over again, the remake was the biggest disaster Bollywood has seen and that stands true regardless of the fact that it was a remake. All we can say it that Sholay never did anything to deserve this.

Umrao Jaan – We love absolutely everything about Rekha’s Umrao Jaan and absolutely nothing about Aishwarya Rai’s remake of it. Aishwarya’s breath taking beauty in the film did turn a lot of heads but all the people who were headed to the theatres had a hard time surviving the long run of the film.

Karz – The love story cum crime thriller starring Rishi Kapoor in the original was celebrated hit of 1981. Sadly we cannot say the same about the Himesh Reshimaiya  starrer Karzzz from 2008 which had some extra Z’s and a lot more annoyance. It can easily be the  life regret anyone who has seen it.

Gol Maal – If you haven’t watched this classic Bollywood comedy from 1979 then you have not seen anything. But on the contrary if you missed out on its remake by Rohit Shetty, Bol Bachchan you really have had a good life. The 2012 film was disappointing beyond imagination.

Zanjeer – The 1973 film is one of the best things in Amitabh Bachchan’s filmography and remaking it was certainly a very bad idea. The remake was crappy as expected with Ram Charan Teja and Priyanka Chopra in the lead. It was not even close to what the original was like.

Can we please leave the classics Bollywood? If we really need to see them again we will always go back to the originals and we didn’t really need these crazy remakes!