Priyadarshan reveals Hera Pheri was a frame-to-frame remake, dialogues were direct Hindi translations: ‘Nobody wrote them in Hindi’
Filmmaker Priyadarshan has made several acclaimed Hindi remakes of South Indian films, but he admits Hera Pheri was an exception, and a surprising one at that. The cult comedy, starring Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, and Paresh Rawal, had its dialogues directly translated from Malayalam into Hindi.
Filmmaker Priyadarshan has made several acclaimed Hindi remakes of South Indian films, but he admits Hera Pheri was an exception, and a surprising one at that. The cult comedy, starring Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, and Paresh Rawal, had its dialogues directly translated from Malayalam into Hindi.
