Arunkumar AravindNovel movies owe their existence to creative thinking. The older generation used to read literary works like the novels of M.T. Vasudevan Nair. The present generation lacks such reading and thinking and they have to rely on remakes.
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At the same time, there is a generation coming up with good reading and creative thinking. My ‘Cocktail’ was not born out of a lack of idea. I was just trying to tell a universal theme in Kerala’s context. My inspiration was ‘Butterfly on Wheels’.
I do not see remaking as a big crime. If a painter makes his own version of another painting, people accept that. I still don’t mind remaking a good movie.
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