Tips acquires remake rights of three Telugu films

To cash on the box-office success of South remakes in Bollywood, Tips Industries has purchased the rights of three hit Telugu films namely Arya, Souryam and Don Seenu. Confirming the same Ramesh Taurani said, “We have bought the rights of three films, Souryam (2008), Don Seenu (2010) and Arya (2004).” All these movies have done great down south and the audience had loved it. Hence we thought of remaking it in Hindi. We intend to produce five films a year. Of these, at least one will be a remake. Apart from remakes there are original story ideas as well.” Telugu film Arya, which was directed by Sukumar and had Allu Arjun, was later dubbed in Malayalam, remade into Oriya, Tamil and Bengali. Souryam, helmed by cinematographer-turned director J Siva Kumar, also did well at the box office. It was later dubbed and released in Malayalam. It was also remade in Kannada and Tamil by Prabhu Deva. Another Telugu film Don Seenu, that starred Ravi Teja and Shriya Saran, was dubbed in Hindi. Now all these three films will be remade in Hindi by Tips Company. "We have bought rights but then it is a process... We need to have the right writers, director and then comes the actor and actress. It will take some time. There are lots of things that we are working on," added Taurani. It is being rumoured since a long time that the remake of Don Seenu is likely to feature Saif Ali Khan or Akshay Kumar in the lead.