While the Munnabhai MBBS script was sold to both in the south as well as to Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox, at two million dollars each, time has now come to sell the sequel rights too.
The rights of Lage Raho Munnabhai have been sold for a sum of more than two million dollars now. The film will thus be remade into three more languages – Tamil, Telugu and Kannada by Gemini Films.
Earlier Munnabhai MBBS was also remade into three south Indian languages. In Tamil, Kamal Hassan played Vasool Raja MBBS, in Telugu Chiranjeevi played Shankardada MBBS and in Kannada Upendra played Uppidada MBBS and all were super duper hits in South.
Gemini had also purchased the right earlier and made loads of money and they are trying to continue the laugh riots in local languages.
In the Munnabhai MBBS remake in English called Gangsta MD, Chris Tucker who plays the lead in the Rush Hour series, will play the role that Sanjay Dutt played in the original.
Chopra is happy about the success of the films. “It is a big high. My films have shown that Indian films if made well can be of international class. And we have a lot of people here who still want to borrow scripts from foreign films and here we have a story which has not only been adapted by filmmakers from the south of India but by a Hollywood studio like 20th Century Fox as well,” says Chopra.
Unlike many Hindi films which are basically copies of English or even south films Vinod Chopra has shown the way for Bollywood to make original films whicha re then copied by filmmakers in the south and Hollywood.
That’s what you call as a trend setter.
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