Bollywood films that could be remade in Hollywood

Parinda 1989
Dir: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
The original gritty underworld film, the best in the genre so far from our shores. True cinema, a film with a story, characters as well as flaws. If you look at it now you can still see where Ram Gopal Verma gets his world from. Unlike an RGV gangster flick though Parinda has a more poignant (or melodramatic) story and a visual look that tells the story. Each character minor or major holds weight, a true team effort between cast & crew.
Not that there arent flaws, the songs mostly were pointless but such is the pressure of commerical cinema. However it is an original product, something we are not very well known for.

Hollywood Take : This could so easily be a brilliant film in the hands of someone like Antoine Fuqua or Martin Scorcese (ideally Sergio Leone but he is long gone) set in South Central LA or the Mafia. Might have to tone down the melodrama but there is serious potential here. Something slightly similar was done with State of Grace starring Sean Penn (ripped off by Sanjay Gupta in parts for Aatish & Vikram Bhatt for Footpath)



Kala Patthar 1979
Dir : Yash Chopra

A diasaster epic, another original plot, well written powerful characters, Amitabh Bacchan has the best part as a dishonored navy man looking for redemption ably supported by other lead as well as supporting cast.

Set in a mine which is about to get flooded, the film introduces the characters and then goes onto shove them into the flooding mine. It is flawed, too many characters, too many cinematic cliches (floating helmets, immediately followed by floating cards to signify the drowned) the flooding sequences are not very well shot but considering how polished we were in 1979, i dont blame them much.

Hollywood Take : The film has serious potential, if not as a major Hollywood release probably as a tv film. You could easily find a bunch of big names past their Hollywood career and churn out a highly rated weekend film. It has all kinds of themes, redemption, love, anger, confrontation. I doubt even Hollywood could churn it out this good.



Hatya
Dir: Kirti Kumar

No this is not a joke. Hatya comes from a time when Bollywood films were at their nadir, the 1980's. Made on a relatively lower budget the film has several points of the ridiculous (Govinda's dancing, the vase in the MIDDLE of the room, them running into the kids aunt, govinda falling in love with her)

It also comes across as having very 'south indian' elements in terms of its kitcshiness (music, sound, imagery, color schemes)

However the story is rock solid, a dead kid witnesses a murder of an unfaithful wife and her lover and in turn becomes hunted as well. His mother ends up as a victim and he is all alone, in this state he is found by an alchoholic painter who has lost his family in an accident. They form a bond and the rest is the story of them finding the murderers etc.

This is probably a fluke for all involved as none of them made a half way decent film again (actors & directors)

Hollywood Take : This has the potential to go mainstream albeit on a lower budget. No need to go flash dance on this. It could be a story driven film with someone who has the acting chops to put forth.