kick is better than the original

WHY IS SALMAN'S KICK(2014) BETTER THAN
TEJA'S(2009)
The Eid release of this year from Salman Khan is
raking in the mullah at an unbelievable rate and
it's not too strange to know that it's another
southie remake. Be it Wanted, Jai Ho or Ready,
The southie remakes have worked out well for
Bhaijan and they still continue to do so. What
startled me a little this time around was the fact
that the makers of Kick, in spite of crediting it to
be a remake of the Telugu Kick starring Ravi
Teja, boasted of it as being primarily original and
having only 6 scenes from the Telugu version.
That was really strange and quipped my
curiosity just to check out whether the claims
had any basis or not?
After sitting through the Telugu version of the
film all I can say is that it's another pure copy
paste job done with some minor changes in the
scenes. The basic story remains the same and
introduces us to Kalyan (Ravi Teja) a peppy
dude who would go to any extent to get a kick
out of life. He gets into the life of sweet and
bubbly girl, Ilene D'cruz and she falls in love
with him only to see him walk out of her life just
in the same manner as he walked in. her
parents choose a suitor for her and she soon
realizes that her to be suitor, who is a cop and
goes by the name of Kalyan Krishna is
demented by a thief who is stealing from the
richest of the rich in the city. This thief is none
other than our very own Kalyan who has moved
up in life ever since his break up. Why is he
doing all this? Will the cop nab him? Will he get
back to his girl? The basic questions remain the
same and so do the answers.
What I kept asking myself throughout the
viewing of the film was the amount of things
that the Hindi version did right from the Telugu
version.
1. While the Southie version is never able to
take itself seriously and makes a mockery of
everything including itself and its hero, the
Hindi version does well to incorporate some
much needed seriousness to the film through
the transformation of the character of Devi
(Salman).
2. The southie version fails to incorporate any
heroism to the character of Kalyan who uses
face masks while stealing while in the Hindi
version, the character of Devil is almost a
superhero in the likes of Robinhood. The
costumed persona of Salman Khan is immensely
likeable and that's one thing that the southie
version missed capitalizing on.
3. We have to agree that Ravi Teja is no Salman
Khan and he can never be.
4. Nawazuddin Siddiqui as the baddie is miles
ahead of the antagonist of the southie version.
His Shiv Gajra is hateable and likeable at the
same time and proves an able foil for Salman's
Devil and thus raising the bar of the film.
5. The visual effects of the Hindi version are
miles ahead of the Southie version and goes
down a long way into making its storytelling
much more believable and effective. 6.Kick
(2014) is grand in every sense of the term. Be
the mounting of the film, the visuals, the
locales, the cast and crew, Kick scores big in
very department. The same however cannot be
said about the southie version. Even the music
is better in the Hindi version than the southie.
Kick is the perfect example of an instance where
a group of people took up an original and spiced
it up with modern sensibility and
understandings up to such an extent that it
became a whole new experience all together.
Nadiadwala and crew deserve every bit of the
appreciation that they are getting form juicing
up an idea to the level that it deserved to be
juiced up to. They may not get any brownie
points for the originality that they so blatantly
boasted off, but they have certainly transformed
Kick into a mammoth entertainer which will find
takers even with western audiences.