10 Classic Bollywood Movies And Their Remakes

Devdas (2002)

A remake of older Hindi films starring Dilip Kumar and K.L. Saigal, all based on the Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novel about a man who drinks himself to death

Don - The Chase Begins Again (2006)

The Shah Rukh Khan film was a remake of Amitabh Bachchan's 1978 blockbuster directed by Chandra Barot

Umrao Jaan (2006 film)

The film, directed by J.P. Dutta and starring Aishwarya Rai, was a remake of Muzaffar Ali's 1981 Rekha film

Aag (2007)

The action drama was directed by Ram Gopal Varma as a tribute to Ramesh Sippy's cult movie Sholay (1975). The all-time hit was in theatres for approximately five years

Karzzzz (2008)

Himesh Reshamiya played Rishi Kapoor in the remake of Subhash Ghai's 1980 musical

Agneepath (2012)

Karan Malhotra's action drama was a remake of the 1990 Amitabh Bachchan film of the same name

Bol Bachchan (2012)

The Rohit Shetty comedy was heavily influenced by Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Gol Maal (1979), about a man who pretends to have a twin

Himmatwala (2013)

The action comedy starring Ajay Devgn and Tamanna Bhatia directed by Sajid Khan was a remake of a 1983 film starring Jeetendra and Sridevi

Chashme Baddoor (2013)

The David Dhawan comedy was a remake of Farooq Shaikh and Deepti Naval's 1981 film Sai Paranjpye. Ali Zafar and Taapsee Pannu appear in the latest film

Zanjeer (2013)

Apoorva Lakhia directed the Hindi-Telugu bilingual starring Ram Charan, which is a replica of Amitabh Bachchan's 1973 success

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