

You remove a superstar of his calibre, and the film would have ended sub 50 crore. Of course, the numbers were 5x more than Jersey, but that's primarily due to the starpower of Hrithik Roshan. But Vikram Vedha too suffered due to the remake factor. It was towered by Hrithik Roshan with a memorable performance – in-fact, one of his finest till date. Again, the film was a honest and faithful remake of the 2017 original featuring R Madhavan and Vijay Sethupathi. But the issue rests with the idea of remaking films – cut copy paste - that are already dubbed in Hindi.Ĭut to September 2022, as Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali Khan led Vikram Vedha released. But does it mean – it’s a bad one? Not really, as Jersey was a faithful remake.

Probably the audience evoked a similar feeling and skipped the film, due to the no novelty factor. The author back in the day had felt the Shahid Kapoor film to be a “repeat telecast of the original” making it difficult to judge the film on an independent ground as it’s difficult to evoke same emotion in repeat viewing with different cast. The film clocked millions of views and had ample of repeat telecasts on television, which meant minimal interest in the Hindi version prior to it’s release. No Interest in Repeat Telecast with Hindi Faces
