Kamal's Sathya was a remake of 'Arjun'. Kamal is a legend and a Perfectionist, so he remade Arjun with excellence. But original Arjun was the best. Dum is remade from Dhill in Tamil. I haven't seen Dum, but the way review is written, it looks like it was not remade properly. There is always a problem with remake. You have the language, culture and audience barriers to take care of. So only some people have the talent get a better remake out of an already success movie in another language. Above all Screen play is what will decide the movie's box office. You only have a fixed number of stories possible, whereever in the world, so it is the treatment of screen play that would make the difference. And Hindi movies had fallen into a cliched treatment for a while now. So it is time that, they look into that a little bit. IMO Dhill's screenplay was tight and well woven(eventhough the story is not a great noteable one). It looks like Dum is not done so. This is not a rare occurence on a remake.
Last year was the worst year for Bollywood, financially. If they keep spilling out unoriginal, uncreative, cheesy films simply for the sake of making money and not entertaining fans, guess what? We won't pay and let the industry suffer. Bollywood does not need to churn out hundreds of mediocre films, a few dozen decent ones will do.
