5 Films You Never Realized Were Unintentional Sequels Of Another Film

Of late, Bollywood has really turned its focus to making films on real people and real incidents.  While it is true that we are overdosing a little on biopics, what is also true is that the trend is working for the audience. Especially, films based on real incidents and controversial ones at that are either critically acclaimed or a box-office success and sometime both.

Another interesting thing that has come out of making films on real-incidents are films which tend to intersect. Like one film made completely separately on one incident can often become an unintentional sequel or prequel to another film that is made by someone else entirely. These are the ones we are talking about.

India’s Most Wanted and Batla House

Did you notice that John Abraham’s recent release, Batla House has a connection with Arjun Kapoor’s film India’s Most Wanted? In Batla House, the Bhatkal brothers are mentioned as the masterminds throughout and it is also mentioned that two people escaped the encounter. In Arjun Kapoor’s movie he captures Yasin Bhatkal, one of the Bhatkal brother and aid reveals himself to be Faizullah Akhtar who escaped the Batla House encounter.

Raazi and Ghazi Attack

Remember how our heart-beats stopped at the sheer courage of Sehmat in Raazi. While real Sehmat passed many information intel, one of the most important was the information she sent about Pakistan’s plan to destroy INS Vikrant, which is crucial to the Indian Navy at the time. In Sankalp Reddy’s Ghazi attack, we see that a piece of important intelligence information makes sure that the Indian Navy manages to save INS Vikrant. That information, of course, came from Sehmat, Alia’s character in Raazi.

Kaum De Heere and Amu

Kaum De Heere is a Punjabi language film that chronicles the Beant Singh, Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh , the Sikh bodyguards who assassinated former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The event sparked off major riots where Sikh were massacred. It is on the back-drop of these horrible riots that film Amu starring Konkana Sen Sharma is based on. Of course, both the films are highly controversial because of their sensitive content and Kaum De Heere is in fact banned in India as authorities thought that it would create communal discord in the country.

Amu and Firaaq

Interestingly, Amu ends with a scene where the news of 2002 Gujarat riots starting is being broadcasted on the television. While we all know what transpired thereafter, but Nandita Das’ Firaaq does a magnificent job of capturing the terror, hopelessness and sheer madness as she chronicled the aftermath of the Gujarat 2002 riots in the film.

Jodha Akbar and Mughal-E-Azam

This one you must have thought of before. While K.Asif in 1960 gave us the immortal love-story of Salim and Anarkali in Indian cinema’s ultimate classic Mughal-E- Azam where Salim’s father, Akbar is clearly not the biggest supporter of those in love. However, in 2008, Ashutosh Gowariker brought us the grand tale of love between Akbar and his wife Jodha Bai.