Sudha Kongara, who helmed Suriya-starrer Tamil authentic Soorarai Pottru, has now directed its Hindi remake Sarfira with Akshay Kumar.
Starring Suriya and Aparna Balamurali in the lead roles, the 2020 Tamil drama movie Soorarai Pottru was probably the most critically acclaimed Indian movies in the latest years. The director Sudha Kongara has remade her personal Tamil film in Hindi as Sarfira with Akshay Kumar and Radhikka Madan. Ahead of its launch on July 12, Sudha has revealed why she determined to remake her personal movie and why she selected Akshay Kumar to lead the upcoming movie.
Talking to Mid-Day, Sudha stated, “Not all films lend themselves to remakes. But when they embody certain qualities and universal themes, they add richness to contemporary cinema as they allow powerful stories to reach new audiences and cultural contexts. Soorarai Pottru reached a wide audience on OTT, but I wanted to see it on the big screen. Adapting it for the Hindi movie-going audience gave me the opportunity to do that.” The Tamil movie skipped the theatrical launch due to Covid-19 pandemic and premiered on Amazon Prime Video.
The filmmaker stated that she couln’t think about anybody apart from Akshay Kumar to lead Sarfira as she informed the portal, “Akshay Kumar is one of the Indian film industry’s biggest stars, and I was confident of his ability to make the role his own. It’s very hard for me to imagine anyone other than Akshay in this role, and when you watch the film, you will know why. I believe Sarfira is one of his most moving performances. There is a certain aura, charm and vulnerability that he brought to Vir Jagannath Mhatre. This role seemed tailor-made for him because there is a lot of Vir in Akshay.”
Sarfira will conflict on the field workplace with Kamal Haasan-starrer Shankar’s vigilante motion thriller Indian 2 on July 12. The latter is the sequel to the blockbuster Indian launched in 1996. Apart from Haasan, it additionally stars Siddharth, Rakul Preet Singh, SJ Suryah, and Bobby Simha amongst others in pivotal roles.
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