film was loosely based on rk narayans novel and gemini studios own miss malini 1947 as motilal convinced vasan to change the principal protagonist to malevasan would go on to straddle both hindi and tamil cinematic worlds for the next two decades and in the bollywood accomplish casting feats no one could ever replicate or at least not do so for many decadeshis insaniyat 1955 another swashbuckler based on nt ramastarring raos telugu hit palletoori pilla 1950 brought dilip kumar and dev anand for the first and only time then paigham 1959 which vasan remade in tamil as irumbu thirai the next year saw dilip kumar and raaj kumar share screen space for the first time until they reunited over three decades later in subhash ghais saudagar 1991there were many other adaptations right from the 1950s onwards across genres spanning family tearjerkers to comedy noirish crime to mythological fantasy and horror too tamil and telugu account for the bulk malayalam and kannada are not far behindlets see a handful of them beginning with malayalammuch before hera pheri 2000 based on ramji rao speaking 1989 garam masala 2005 based on boeing boeing 1985 or bhool bhulaiyaa 2007 based on manichitrathazhu 1993 there was aap ki kasam 1974 the rajesh khannamumtaz starrer chronicling the pernicious and fatal effect of suspicion on relationships a hit due to its songs like jai jai shiv shankar and the pensive and belatedly contrite zindagi ke safar mein jo guzar jate maqam it was based on vazhve mayam 1970 starring sathyan though the ending differedthen there is julie 1975 which is not only the first to feature angloindians beyond caricature but also deals with the issues of unwed motherhood interreligious marriage while surmounting all the prejudice with one of the finest portrayals of a reasonable authority figure based on chattakari 1974 the hindi version also directed by ks sethumadhavan saw lakshmi reprise the lead role while mohan sharma adoor bhasi sukumari and sankaradi were replaced by vikram om prakash nadira and utpal dutt the hindi version also saw sridevi who played the title characters younger sister in her first significant bollywood appearanceand while masoom 1983 is based on erich segals novel man woman and child it also owes to olangal 1982 where amol palekar played the role done by naseeruddin shahfrom kannada there was gopi 1970 which sees dilip kumar ham it up outrageously as a village bumpkin based on simultaneously shot chinnada gombe and tamil muradan muthu 1964 dharmendras sports thriller main intaquam loonga 1982 based on thayige thakka maga 1978 starring dr rajkumar and then to round it off sunny deol in arjun pandit 1999 unofficially based on om 1995 which had starred shiva rajkumar the eldest son of the kannada thespianthe telugu film industry is behind some of bollywoods bestknown classics apart from ek duuje ke liye 1981 the seminal northsouth romance of bollywood k balachander directed the hindi remake of his maro charitra 1978 with kamal haasan and madhavi reprising their