Kamal Hassan starred 'Thoonga Vanam' is being planned to be remade in Hindi, with Kamal in the lead. The actor clarifies, “I'd like to correct you. Its' not Thoonga Vanam that's being remade into Hindi. It's the French film Nuit Blanche that is being remade into Hindi. My Thoonga Vanam is a remake of the same French film. I had offered to make a simultaneous Hindi version for the Bollywood producer who owns the rights of the Hindi remake. But I think he wanted to make it with some Bollywood star.” Now that it is heard the Hindi remake will star Kamal, he said, “We've deviated substantially from the French original also. That big hand-to-hand fight between Trisha and me was not there in Nuit Blanche.” He added, “They say, 'Oh, Thoonga Vanam is a good film. But it's not Sholay.' But why should it be Sholay? Why can't we assess judge and praise efforts to make a different kind of cinema within the commercial context?”
