Five Gujarati films have verified remakes in other Indian languages: Vash became the Hindi Shaitaan in 2024, which reportedly grossed Rs 211.06 crore; Chhello Divas became the Hindi Days of Tafree in 2016; Chaal Jeevi Laiye! became the Marathi Ole Aale in 2024; Desh Re Joya Dada Pardesh Joya became the Telugu Velugu Needalu in 1999; and Oxygen became the Telugu Entha Manchivaadavuraa in 2020. Traffic in the other direction is heavier. Nine films have been remade into Gujarati, seven of them from Marathi and two from Tamil, including Natsamrat, Ventilator, Sharato Lagu, Golkeri, Umbarro and Maharani. A sixth Hindi case, Khilona in 1970, is claimed as a Gujarati remake on one Wikipedia page and a Telugu remake on another.
Every story written about Gujarati remakes is really one story, told badly. Shaitaan made a lot of money, Vash came first, isn't that interesting. It is interesting. It is also about a seventh of what has actually happened, and the missing six sevenths point the other way. Gujarati cinema has been importing screenplays far more often than it has been exporting them, mostly from Marathi, and nobody has laid the two columns side by side.
So this page does that. Fifteen film to film crossings, each one traced to the specific release date, director and production house on both sides, with the reported box office where a reliable source carries one. Five out of Gujarati, nine into it, and one that the public record cannot agree on and that we have therefore printed as a contradiction rather than a fact. Stage plays that became Hindi films, like Kanji Virudh Kanji becoming OMG and Andhalo Pato becoming Aankhen, are a different kind of traffic and they live on our page about Gujarati books and plays that became films. This page stays on film to film.
The list at a glance
| Original | Remake | Direction | The detail that matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vash (Gujarati, 2023) | Shaitaan (Hindi, 2024) | Out of Gujarati | Only Janki Bodiwala carried over; reported Rs 211.06 crore |
| Chhello Divas (Gujarati, 2015) | Days of Tafree (Hindi, 2016) | Out of Gujarati | Same director; only Yash Soni and Kinjal Rajpriya carried over |
| Chaal Jeevi Laiye! (Gujarati, 2019) | Ole Aale (Marathi, 2024) | Out of Gujarati | Same writer-director and producer; 8 Filmfare Marathi nominations |
| Desh Re Joya Dada Pardesh Joya (Gujarati, 1998) | Velugu Needalu (Telugu, 1999) | Out of Gujarati | One year turnaround; the remake failed at the box office |
| Oxygen (Gujarati, 2018) | Entha Manchivaadavuraa (Telugu, 2020) | Out of Gujarati | Kalyan Ram in the lead, produced by Aditya Music |
| Contested (Gujarati 1968 or Telugu 1963) | Khilona (Hindi, 1970) | Disputed | Two Wikipedia articles name two different sources |
| Natsamrat (Marathi, 2016) | Natsamrat (Gujarati, 2018) | Into Gujarati | Siddharth Randeria had staged it in Gujarati in 2007 |
| Ventilator (Marathi, 2016) | Ventilator (Gujarati, 2018) | Into Gujarati | The original's director took a cameo in the remake |
| Chi Va Chi Sau Ka (Marathi, 2017) | Sharato Lagu (Gujarati, 2018) | Into Gujarati | Reported Rs 17.5 crore for the Gujarati version |
| Duniyadari (Marathi, 2013) | Duniyadari (Gujarati, 2017) | Into Gujarati | Both versions trace to Suhas Shirvalkar's novel |
| Muramba (Marathi, 2017) | Golkeri (Gujarati, 2020) | Into Gujarati | Sachin Khedekar plays the father in both films |
| Jhimma (Marathi, 2021) | Umbarro (Gujarati, 2025) | Into Gujarati | Hemant Dhome co-wrote the remake of his own film |
| Nach Ga Ghuma (Marathi, 2024) | Maharani (Gujarati, 2025) | Into Gujarati | Fifteen months from original to remake |
| Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom (Tamil, 2012) | Shu Thayu? (Gujarati, 2018) | Into Gujarati | The Tamil film has been remade five times in all |
| Aandavan Kattalai (Tamil, 2016) | Shubh Yatra (Gujarati, 2023) | Into Gujarati | Produced by Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan |
How this list was built
Every crossing on this page had to be stated as a remake in an English Wikipedia film article, or carried in one of Wikipedia's remake categories, before it could be listed. The categories used were Hindi remakes of Gujarati films, Telugu remakes of Gujarati films, Gujarati remakes of Marathi films, Gujarati remakes of Tamil films, and Gujarati films remade in other languages, cross checked against the individual film articles on both sides so that no pairing rests on a category tag alone. Release dates, runtimes, directors, producers and casts come from the infoboxes of those same articles, retrieved in July 2026. Box office figures are trade reported and never audited, so every one of them is labelled reported in the text. Two date discrepancies were found and both are printed rather than smoothed over: the Ole Aale article dates Chaal Jeevi Laiye! to 2021 where the film's own article gives 1 February 2019, and the Marathi Duniyadari article dates the Gujarati remake to 2023 where the Gujarati film's own article gives 17 February 2017. One entire entry, Khilona, exists on this page because two Wikipedia articles make incompatible claims about its source and neither can be verified from encyclopedia text. Excluded on purpose: television remakes, of which there are several between Marathi and Gujarati serials; dubbed versions, which are not remakes; and stage to screen adaptations, which are covered separately. Every entry carries a Commons photograph of a director, producer or lead actor from one side of the crossing, and the alt text names both the person and the film.
Out of Gujarati: the five that other industries bought
Two went to Hindi, two to Telugu, one to Marathi. Only one of the five made serious money, and it was not the one directed by the man who made the original.
1Vash (2023) into Shaitaan (2024, Hindi)
This is the crossing everybody knows, and almost nobody knows in the right order. Vash came first: a 117 minute Gujarati horror film about a family whose daughter falls under a stranger's control, made by Krishnadev Yagnik, released on 17 February 2023, distributed by Panorama Studios. Thirteen months later the same story opened across India as Shaitaan, directed by Vikas Bahl, produced by Devgn Films with Jio Studios and Panorama Studios, timed to Maha Shivaratri on 8 March 2024. Shaitaan reportedly grossed Rs 211.06 crore worldwide against a reported budget of Rs 60 to 65 crore and finished as the fifth highest grossing Hindi film of 2024. A sequel is in the scripting stage.
The casting decision is the whole story. Of the Gujarati cast, exactly one person crossed over: Janki Bodiwala, playing the possessed daughter again. Hitu Kanodia's father became Ajay Devgn. Hiten Kumar's part went to R. Madhavan. Jyothika came in as the mother, her first Hindi film since 1998. Read that as a Hindi industry that trusted the Gujarati screenplay completely and the Gujarati faces not at all, with one exception it could not write around, because Bodiwala's performance was the film. She then won Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 71st National Film Awards for the Gujarati original, which also took Best Gujarati Feature Film. The remake made the money. The original got the citation.
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2Chhello Divas (2015) into Days of Tafree (2016, Hindi)
A director remaking his own film ten months later is rare enough to be worth pausing on. Krishnadev Yagnik wrote and directed Chhello Divas, a college friendship comedy that opened on 20 November 2015 and became the film every Gujarati twenty something quoted for the next three years, on a reported Rs 2.8 crore budget for a reported Rs 18 crore gross. Anand Pandit and Rashmi Sharma then backed the Hindi version, Days of Tafree, which Yagnik also wrote and directed, out on 23 September 2016. Same man, same script, same jokes, ten months apart, one language across.
It did not work, and the cast sheet explains why better than any review. Of the actors credited on Chhello Divas, only Yash Soni and Kinjal Rajpriya were carried into Days of Tafree; the rest of the ensemble was replaced with Hindi industry newcomers including the British actor Nimisha Mehta, for whom it was a debut. The Hindi film reportedly opened to about Rs 60 lakh over its first weekend. Chhello Divas worked because a specific city recognised itself in it. Strip the accent, the streets and the faces, and what is left is a college comedy competing against every other college comedy in the country. Yagnik went home and made Shu Thayu?, Naadi Dosh, Raado and Vash. He has not directed in Hindi since.
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3Chaal Jeevi Laiye! (2019) into Ole Aale (2024, Marathi)
Vipul Mehta wrote and directed a father and son road film called Chaal Jeevi Laiye!, Rashmin Majithia produced it under Coconut Motion Pictures, it opened on 1 February 2019, and it never really left. It reportedly grossed over Rs 50 crore and entered its eighth year in cinemas on 1 February 2026, which is the sort of run Gujarati cinema had not seen in living memory. Five years after the release, the same writer-director and the same producer rebuilt it in Marathi as Ole Aale, out on 5 January 2024, with Nana Patekar in the father's chair opposite Siddharth Chandekar and Sayali Sanjeev, Makarand Anaspure and Tanvi Azmi alongside, and Sachin-Jigar again on the music.
Unlike the Hindi crossings, this one was received as work rather than as arbitrage. Ole Aale picked up eight nominations at the Filmfare Awards Marathi 2025 and reportedly grossed Rs 8.33 crore, a fraction of the original's number but respectable for a Marathi drama with no franchise behind it. One caution on the dates. The English Wikipedia article on Ole Aale describes its source as the 2021 Gujarati film Chaal Jeevi Laiye, while the article on Chaal Jeevi Laiye! itself gives a release date of 1 February 2019 and a Bollywood Hungama citation for the fifty week run that follows from it. The two pages disagree. The 2019 date is the one carried by the film's own article and its cited trade reporting, and we have flagged the discrepancy rather than quietly picked a winner.
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4Desh Re Joya Dada Pardesh Joya (1998) into Velugu Needalu (1999, Telugu)
Long before the new wave, Gujarati cinema had one film big enough that another industry wanted it. Desh Re Joya Dada Pardesh Joya was written, produced and directed by Govindbhai Patel, ran 167 minutes, starred Hiten Kumar and Roma Manek with Arvind Trivedi and Ramesh Mehta, carried a score by Arvind Barot, and reportedly grossed Rs 22 crore in 1998, which puts it among the highest grossing Gujarati films ever made in a decade nobody now counts. Within a year Telugu producers had it.
Velugu Needalu opened on 20 February 1999, directed by Mourya, produced by M. S. Reddy with T. Subbarami Reddy presenting, with an ensemble of Meena, Venkat, Jayaprada, Bhanu Chander, Suresh and Maheswari, and music by Srilekha. Its own Wikipedia article records the outcome in five words: it was a box office failure. That pairing is the useful thing here. A Gujarati village melodrama about migration and family duty was hugely legible to its own audience and almost illegible once translated into a Telugu star vehicle. The 1998 to 1999 turnaround also tells you the remake pipeline was already looking at Gujarat twenty five years before Shaitaan, just quietly and without anybody in Mumbai writing it up.
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5Oxygen (2018) into Entha Manchivaadavuraa (2020, Telugu)
The second Gujarati to Telugu crossing is the one almost no list has. Oxygen was a 2018 Gujarati release whose cast included Darshan Jariwala, Anshul Trivedi and Vyoma Nandi, the latter fresh off her Gujarati debut in Cash on Delivery. Two years later Aditya Music's Subhash Gupta and Umesh Gupta produced an official remake in Telugu, Entha Manchivaadavuraa, directed by Satish Vegesna, with Kalyan Ram and Mehreen Pirzada in the leads and a Gopi Sundar score. It opened on 15 January 2020 for the Sankranti window and ran 144 minutes.
What makes it worth reading is the premise, which survives the translation intact: a short film actor who takes on borrowed identities in order to attach himself to strangers and give them hope at the worst moment of their lives, and who then collides with people who want him stopped. That is a high concept, and high concept travels. It is the opposite of the Desh Re Joya problem. Where a village melodrama collapsed on the way across, an idea that can be stated in one sentence made the journey and got a Sankranti slot and a title borrowed from a song in the old Telugu film Nammina Bantu. Gujarat exported the concept. Telugu cinema supplied the scale.
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The one nobody can agree on
A 1970 Hindi hit that two Wikipedia articles trace to two different films in two different languages.
6Khilona (1970, Hindi): the crossing Wikipedia cannot agree on
Here is a contradiction sitting in plain sight, and the honest thing is to print it rather than pick a side. Khilona, the 1970 Hindi drama that made Sanjeev Kumar a national name, is described on his own English Wikipedia biography like this: in 1970, the movie Khilona, which was the remake of Gujarati film Mare Javun Pele Paar (1968), brought Kumar national recognition. Kumar, born Harihar Jethalal Jariwala, had been working in Gujarati cinema and had acted with Aruna Irani in Mare Javun Pele Par. On that reading, Khilona is a Gujarati film that crossed over, and Sanjeev Kumar carried his own role across with it.
The English Wikipedia article on Khilona itself says something else entirely. There the film is a remake of the 1963 Telugu film Punarjanma, produced by A. V. Subba Rao and directed by K. Pratyagatma, itself based on Gulshan Nanda's novel Patthar Ke Honth, made simultaneously in Tamil as Engirundho Vandhaal and later in Malayalam as Amrithavaahini. Punarjanma's own article agrees with that version. Both claims cannot be true in the same sense. Either the Gujarati film and the Telugu film share the Gulshan Nanda source and the Sanjeev Kumar page has compressed that into a remake claim, or one of the two pages is simply wrong. We are not going to resolve it from encyclopedia text, and neither should anyone else. Khilona won the Filmfare Best Movie award in 1971 with Mumtaz taking Best Actress. Whose film it was a remake of remains, on the public record, disputed.
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Into Gujarati: the nine that came the other way
Seven from Marathi, two from Tamil, and a pattern of collaboration rather than acquisition that the outbound traffic never managed.
7Natsamrat (2016, Marathi) into Natsamrat (2018, Gujarati)
This one has three floors, and most write ups only see the top one. The bottom floor is a Marathi play by V. V. Shirwadkar, who wrote as Kusumagraj, about a stage actor who cannot survive his own retirement. The middle floor is Mahesh Manjrekar's 2016 Marathi film, produced by and starring Nana Patekar, which became the highest grossing Marathi film of its moment until Sairat took the record. The top floor is the Gujarati Natsamrat of 30 August 2018, directed by Jayant Gilatar, screenplay by Pravin Solanki, running 130 minutes, with Siddharth Randeria in the lead opposite Deepika Chikhalia and Manoj Joshi alongside.
The detail that makes it a Gujarati story rather than a Gujarati purchase is what Randeria had already done. In 2007, nine years before the Marathi film existed, he had staged the same material in Gujarati as a play called Amari Duniya, Tamari Duniya, with Jimmit Trivedi and Disha Savla-Upadhyay in the company. So the 2018 film is a man returning to a role he had already lived on stage, using the Marathi film's screen adaptation as the route back. The material then kept travelling: Krishna Vamsi remade the Marathi film again in Telugu as Ranga Maarthanda in 2023, with Prakash Raj and Ramya Krishna. One play, four industries, a reported Rs 2 crore for the Gujarati version. Our page on Gujarati books and plays that became films covers the stage side of this traffic in more detail.
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8Ventilator (2016, Marathi) into Ventilator (2018, Gujarati)
Rajesh Mapuskar's Marathi Ventilator put an entire extended family in a hospital corridor while one man lay unconscious upstairs, and let the comedy come from the relatives rather than the illness. Priyanka Chopra produced it. It won at the National Film Awards and it is the kind of ensemble machine that only works if you have enough recognisable faces to fill a waiting room, which is exactly what Gujarati cinema had by 2018. Umang Vyas directed the Gujarati version, Falguni Patel and Lawrence D'Souza produced it under Irada Entertainment, and it opened on 14 September 2018 at 146 minutes with a Parth Bharat Thakkar score.
The casting reads like a roll call of the new wave at its most confident: Jackie Shroff at the top of the poster, Pratik Gandhi two years after Wrong Side Raju, then Mitra Gadhavi, Sanjay Goradia, Utkarsh Mazmudar, Suchita Trivedi, Mehul Buch and Manan Desai. Mapuskar, the original's director, took a cameo in the remake, which is the friendliest possible signal a source industry can send. Jackie Shroff shared the poster himself in August 2018. This is the healthy version of a remake: not a script bought cheap and stripped for parts, but one industry lending another a structure it could fill with its own faces.
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9Chi Va Chi Sau Ka (2017, Marathi) into Sharato Lagu (2018, Gujarati)
Paresh Mokashi's Chi Va Chi Sau Ka is a satire about arranged marriage in which the couple keep negotiating terms right up to the wedding, and it opened in Marathi on 19 May 2017 with Lalit Prabhakar and Mrinmayee Godbole. Eighteen months later Neeraj Joshi directed the Gujarati version, Sharato Lagu, which is exactly what the title says: terms and conditions apply. It ran 137 minutes, opened on 25 October 2018 with Malhar Thakar and Deeksha Joshi in the leads, and reportedly grossed Rs 17.5 crore, which put it among the biggest Gujarati earners of the decade.
The premise is why it worked twice. Both Maharashtra and Gujarat are places where the arranged marriage conversation happens in living rooms with elders present and everybody performing agreement, so a comedy about a couple who refuse to stop asking questions lands identically on either side of the border. Nothing structural had to be rebuilt. The names, the wedding rituals, the food on the table and the accent changed, and the joke stayed exactly where it was. Compare that with Chhello Divas going to Hindi and losing everything. Distance between cultures, not distance between languages, is what decides whether a remake survives.
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10Duniyadari (2013, Marathi) into Duniyadari (2017, Gujarati)
The Marathi Duniyadari is a genuine cult object. Sanjay Jadhav directed it from Suhas Shirvalkar's novel, it opened on 19 July 2013 with Swapnil Joshi and Ankush Chaudhari heading a large ensemble, it reportedly grossed over Rs 32 crore, it was the highest grossing Marathi film of its moment, and it was the only Indian film of the 2010s to complete a fifty week theatrical run until Timepass took the record. When Gujarati cinema was three years into its own revival and hungry for proven material, that is a very obvious file to open.
Shital Shah directed the Gujarati version with Ankit Joshipura as co-writer, Tajdar Amrohi and Riyaz Balooch producing through Kamal Amrohi Pictures and Worldwide Motion Pictures, Malhar Thakar and Esha Kansara in the leads, released 17 February 2017 and running 121 minutes, a full twenty five minutes shorter than the Marathi film. One caution on dates again. The English Wikipedia article on the Marathi Duniyadari says the film was remade in Gujarati as Duniyadari (2023); the Gujarati film's own article gives 17 February 2017 and lists the full 2017 credits. The film article is the more specific source and we have used its date, while noting the disagreement. Both versions carry the Shirvalkar novel as their base, which means this crossing sits on the boundary between a film remake and a fresh adaptation, and our page on Gujarati books and plays that became films picks up that thread.
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11Muramba (2017, Marathi) into Golkeri (2020, Gujarati)
Muramba and Golkeri are both named after a preserve, sweet and sour at once, which is a fair description of the film: a young couple break up, and the boy's parents, who like the girl more than they like their son's decision, refuse to let it stay broken. Varun Narvekar directed the Marathi original in 2017 with Amey Wagh and Mithila Palkar as the couple and Sachin Khedekar and Chinmayi Sumit as the parents. Viral Shah directed the Gujarati version, written with Amatya, produced by Manasi Parekh and Parthiv Gohil under Soul Sutra, out on 28 February 2020 at 128 minutes, with Malhar Thakar and Manasi Parekh as the couple.
The casting has a detail worth catching: Sachin Khedekar plays the father in both films. He is the only actor on this entire page to appear in a Gujarati remake and its own Marathi original, which is the clearest evidence you will find that the two industries treat each other as neighbours rather than as markets. Golkeri reportedly grossed Rs 9 crore, which is respectable and also incomplete, because its theatrical run was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic three weeks after release. It went to Amazon Prime Video instead and became, by accident, the last Gujarati film of the pre-pandemic era.
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12Jhimma (2021, Marathi) into Umbarro (2025, Gujarati)
Jhimma sends seven Marathi women on a package tour of London and lets each of them arrive at something she had stopped expecting. Hemant Dhome directed it for Chalchitra Company from a screenplay by Irawati Karnik, it opened on 19 November 2021, it reportedly grossed Rs 15.7 crore and finished as the second highest grossing Marathi film of that year. Abhishek Shah, who had made Hellaro, directed the Gujarati version as Umbarro, released 24 January 2025 at 137 minutes with a nine woman ensemble including Vandana Pathak, Kaajal Oza Vaidya, Suchita Trivedi, Deeksha Joshi and Tarjanee Bhadla, and a Mehul Surti score.
The credit that matters is on the writing line. Hemant Dhome, who directed the Marathi original, is credited as a co-writer of the Gujarati remake alongside Abhishek Shah and Keyu Shah. That is not a rights transaction, that is a collaboration, and it is the most advanced form this traffic has taken so far. Umbarro reportedly grossed Rs 13.3 crore against a reported Rs 4 crore budget and became one of the bigger Gujarati earners of 2025. Two directors who each made a landmark women's ensemble in their own language ended up building the second one together.
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13Nach Ga Ghuma (2024, Marathi) into Maharani (2025, Gujarati)
Fifteen months is the fastest turnaround on this page. Paresh Mokashi's Nach Ga Ghuma opened in Marathi on 1 May 2024, built entirely around the relationship between a working woman and the domestic help her household cannot function without, produced by the actor Swapnil Joshi under Hiranyagarbha Manoranjan, and became the highest grossing Marathi film of the year. Viral Shah's Gujarati version, Maharani, was in cinemas by 1 August 2025 at 143 minutes with Manasi Parekh and Shraddha Dangar in the two central roles, Ojas Rawal and Sanjay Goradia alongside, and a Parth Bharat Thakkar score.
Two things sit underneath this. First, Paresh Mokashi has now had two of his films remade in Gujarati, this one and Chi Va Chi Sau Ka, which makes him the single most borrowed writer-director in the entire Marathi to Gujarati channel. Second, look at the producers: Kumar Mangat Pathak and Abhishek Pathak, the Panorama Studios family that distributed Vash and produced Shaitaan. The same people who carried a Gujarati horror film into Hindi are now carrying a Marathi drama into Gujarati. The traffic is not two industries trading. It is a small number of production houses working every direction at once.
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14Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom (2012, Tamil) into Shu Thayu? (2018, Gujarati)
The Tamil original is one of the most remade Indian films of the last fifteen years and almost nobody in Gujarat knows it exists. Balaji Tharaneetharan made his debut with Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom on 30 November 2012, starring Vijay Sethupathi as a man who loses his short term memory in a head injury two days before his wedding while his friends try to get him married before he works out what happened. It was based on things that had actually happened to the film's own cinematographer, C. Prem Kumar. It has since been remade five times: in Telugu as Pusthakamlo Konni Pageelu Missing, in Kannada as Kwatle Satisha, in Malayalam as Medulla Oblangata, in Marathi as Dokyala Shot, and in Gujarati as Shu Thayu?.
Krishnadev Yagnik wrote and directed the Gujarati version for Belvedere Films, out on 24 August 2018 at 131 minutes, with Malhar Thakar, Yash Soni, Mayur Chauhan, Mitra Gadhavi, Aarjav Trivedi and Kinjal Rajpriya, and it reportedly grossed Rs 21 crore, one of the biggest Gujarati numbers of that decade. Note who directed it. Yagnik had already remade his own Chhello Divas into Hindi and watched it fail. Two years later he was on the receiving end of the same trade, taking a Tamil screenplay and rebuilding it around a Gujarati friend group. That one worked. The difference is that he was translating into his own audience rather than away from it.
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15Aandavan Kattalai (2016, Tamil) into Shubh Yatra (2023, Gujarati)
M. Manikandan's Aandavan Kattalai follows a man from small town Tamil Nadu trying to assemble the paperwork that will let him leave for London, and turns the passport office into a comedy of bureaucratic humiliation. Vijay Sethupathi and Ritika Singh led it, it opened on 23 September 2016, and it was remade in Telugu as London Babulu in 2017 before Gujarat got to it. Manish Saini, who had already won a National Award for Dhh, wrote and directed the Gujarati version as Shubh Yatra, released 28 April 2023 at 132 minutes with Malhar Thakar, Monal Gajjar, Darshan Jariwala and Hemin Trivedi.
The producing credit is the part people miss. Shubh Yatra was produced by Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan through Rowdy Pictures, which is to say a Tamil star couple financed a Gujarati film, remade from a Tamil film, for the Gujarati market. That is a long way from a rights sale. It is also the second time this page has landed on Vijay Sethupathi: he starred in both Tamil originals that Gujarati cinema chose to remake, which is either a coincidence or a fair guide to what kind of Tamil film travels to Gujarat, namely the small, human, unstarry one. The migration theme did the rest. There is no subject in Gujarat with a bigger built in audience than getting a visa.
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What the numbers say
Which way the remakes travel, 15 verified film to film crossings
Counts are the fifteen crossings documented on this page, each verified against English Wikipedia film articles on both sides in July 2026. This is not a complete census of every Indian remake ever made, and television remakes and dubbed releases are excluded by design. Nine films came into Gujarati against five that went out, which is the single most useful number here.
Questions people actually ask
Which Gujarati film was remade as Shaitaan?
Vash, a 2023 Gujarati supernatural horror film written and directed by Krishnadev Yagnik. Shaitaan, directed by Vikas Bahl, opened on 8 March 2024 and reportedly grossed Rs 211.06 crore worldwide. Janki Bodiwala played the possessed daughter in both versions and is the only member of the Gujarati cast who crossed over.
Do more films go out of Gujarati cinema or come into it?
More come in. On the verified record traced here, five Gujarati films have been remade in other languages while nine films from other languages have been remade in Gujarati, seven of them from Marathi. That ratio surprises most people, because only the outbound cases get written about.
Why does Gujarati cinema remake so many Marathi films?
Because the domestic subject matter overlaps almost exactly. Arranged marriage negotiations, joint family friction, hospital waiting rooms, a working woman and her domestic help: these land the same way in Ahmedabad and in Pune, so the screenplay needs translation rather than reconstruction. Two Paresh Mokashi films have been remade in Gujarati, and Hemant Dhome co-wrote the Gujarati remake of his own Jhimma.
Did Krishnadev Yagnik remake his own film in Hindi?
Yes. He wrote and directed Chhello Divas in 2015 and then wrote and directed the Hindi version, Days of Tafree, released on 23 September 2016 with Anand Pandit and Rashmi Sharma producing. Only two of the original cast came with him, and the Hindi film reportedly took about Rs 60 lakh in its opening weekend. He has not directed in Hindi since.
Was Khilona a remake of a Gujarati film?
That is genuinely unsettled. Sanjeev Kumar's English Wikipedia biography states that the 1970 Hindi film Khilona was a remake of the 1968 Gujarati film Mare Javun Pele Paar. The Wikipedia article on Khilona itself states that it was a remake of the 1963 Telugu film Punarjanma, and the Punarjanma article agrees. We print both claims and pick neither.
Sources and image credits
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- English Wikipedia film articles for all fifteen originals and their remakes, retrieved July 2026, together with the infobox credits, release dates and runtimes they carry
- English Wikipedia categories Hindi remakes of Gujarati films, Telugu remakes of Gujarati films, Gujarati remakes of Marathi films, Gujarati remakes of Tamil films and Gujarati films remade in other languages
- English Wikipedia biography of Sanjeev Kumar, for the disputed claim that Khilona was a remake of Mare Javun Pele Paar (1968)
- English Wikipedia article on Khilona (1970 film) and on Punarjanma (1963 film), for the competing Telugu source claim
- Trade reporting cited within those articles for the reported gross figures, including Bollywood Hungama for the Chaal Jeevi Laiye! theatrical run and Ormax and Times of India reporting for the Gujarati box office numbers
- Firstpost, on Rajesh Mapuskar taking a cameo in the Gujarati remake of Ventilator, and Mumbai Mirror, 10 August 2018, on Jackie Shroff sharing the remake's poster
- The Hindu and Times of India reporting on Rowdy Pictures producing the Gujarati remake of Aandavan Kattalai as Shubh Yatra
- Wikimedia Commons file pages for every photograph used, checked individually for licence and attribution in July 2026