Kung Fu movies are a calling card of Chinese movies and are very popular in many countries, including our good neighbor India.
There is a very strong idol worship complex in the traditional culture of Indians, especially those heroes who can beat and kick bad guys and defend justice.
And Chinese kung fu films, while emphasizing fists and feet, also pay great attention to the morality of martial arts practitioners - eliminating evil and promoting good, so it is not surprising that they will be loved by Indians.
Indians often pay tribute to Chinese Kung Fu in movies. For example, in "Rebel for Love" a few years ago, the plot of the protagonist's learning martial arts is similar to the classic domestic film "Shaolin Temple". At the end, he goes upstairs to fight a bad guy, which is also very similar to Bruce Lee's movie. In the "Fighter Bruce Lee", Bruce Lee directly became the object of the protagonist's imitation and a symbol of the theme of eliminating evil and promoting good in the whole movie.
When Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan came to China, he sincerely expressed that he was a fan of Jackie Chan, and his praise was beyond words.
Perhaps because they love Chinese kung fu movies so much, the Indians even remade Jackie Chan's "Double Dragon Club" three times.
"Double Dragon Club" is an action comedy film produced in 1992.
Jackie Chan in the film played a pair of twin brothers desperate and Yo Ma. Due to the kidnapping of gangsters, they were separated since they were young, and they were adopted by dancers. Differently.
Maybe it was the call of blood, their fates intersected again, and because of the same appearance, they entered each other's life, stupidly indistinguishable, made a lot of jokes, especially in front of their respective girlfriends.
In the end, the brothers recognized each other and joined forces to deal with the gangsters, and the story ended in a happy ending.
This is a typical Jackie Chan-style movie. It combines comedy and kung fu, which is very entertaining. Coupled with love and happy ending, it is a film and television element that Indians love to see.
So, two years after the release of "Double Dragon Club" (1994), the Indians immediately remade the film into the Telugu film "Hello Brother", which also borrowed the 1990 Bollywood film "Kishen Kanhaiya" In , the twin brothers can sense each other and produce a bridge of action linkage.
The protagonist is Nagajuna Akkeny. After the film was released, it was a big hit at the box office, proving that Akkeny can also master comedy movies.
In 1997, Bollywood remade it into a Hindi film "Judwaa", which was directly translated into "Shuanglonghui" in Chinese.
The protagonist of the film is the well-known "Uncle Monkey God" Salman Khan.
Judging from Xiao Sa's funny temperament on weekdays, his muscles and the little face like a public lover, "Shuanglonghui" is tailor-made for Xiao Sa, and he is too suitable for acting.
However, the film's reputation is not good, IMDb only scored 6.0 points, not as good as "Hello Brother"'s 7.1 points, but with the huge appeal of Salman Khan, the film still sold well that year, with a global box office of 2.3 billion rupees.
In 2017, Indians still remember this story, and it was remade into "Judwaa2".
The "2" in the title doesn't mean a sequel, it means this is the second shot of Judwaa.
There is nothing particularly creative about the story. In addition to retaining the framework of "Shuanglonghui" and the stalk of the twins' linkage, the characters are more like Jackie Chan's version of "Shuanglonghui". One brother is a gangster, and one brother is learning music. of.
The plot is protracted, lengthy, and empty, and the film is 145 minutes long, 45 minutes longer than the original! Of course, Indian remakes are never short, "Hello Brother" is 152 minutes and "Judwaa" is 138 minutes.
The protagonist is the new generation idol star Warren Dhawan. As a new generation of traffic niche in India, the whole movie is like his personal show. When it comes up, it is a three-step show of fighting, funny, and dancing. No one doubts War. Lun's personal charisma, whether it's movements, dance steps, or looks, are all great, but the film's over-description of him personally makes the structure of the story very strange and out of balance.
In the stretched film, there is no substantial new content, full of funny farces and dazzling song and dance episodes, the same meme is repeated back and forth, making people sleepy.
The film also scored 3.9 points on IMDb, setting a new low for the IP, and finally received a box office of 2.2759 billion rupees, which is similar to "Judwaa" 20 years ago, but its budget is three times that of the latter, embarrassing!
At the end of the film, Salman Khan made a cameo appearance as the protagonist of "Judwaa" and interacted with the twin brother played by Warren, which was very joyful.
This is also the only highlight of the film, unfortunately!
I don't know if the Indians will remake "Shuanglonghui" again after this time?
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