In 2014, David Dhawan took a calculated danger of presenting his son Varun Dhawan in a Govinda type of avatar in Main Tera Hero. The constructive response gave them courage of continuing the exact same and therefore the director recreated his personal hits from the ‘90s as Judwaa 2 (2017) and Coolie No.1 (2020) with Varun. Interestingly, all these films are remakes of their regional language hits as Kandireega (Telugu/2011), Hello Brother (Telugu/1994) and Chinna Mapillai (Tamil/1993) respectively, with Hello Brother also borrowing a lot from Jackie Chan’s Twin Dragons (1992).
As a noteworthy association, David did 17 films with Govinda starting with his directorial debut in Taaqatwar (1989) and most of these films have been remakes of our Indian regional language motion pictures except a handful of.
In 1990, a surprise hit Swarg strongly reminded of Avtaar (1983), but it was in fact fairly close to Mehrbaan (1967) which was a remake of Padikkadha Medhai (Tamil/1960) additional possessing its roots in Jog Biyog (Bengali/1953).
The 1993 blockbuster Aankhen was inspired from Anubavi Raja Anubavi (Tamil/1967), which was later recreated in Kannada as Kittu Puttu (1967), in Hindi as Do Phool (1973) and in Marathi as Changu Mangu (1990).
Post the mega results of Shola Aur Shabnam and Aankhen, the director-actor duo was on a roll resulting in a chain of hits. In 1994, their Raja Babu was inspired from Rasukutty (Tamil/1992). Coolie No.1 (1995) took inspiration from Chinna Mapillai (Tamil/1993), along with bringing back the memories of Gol Maal (1979). Saajan Chale Sasural (1996) was a remake of Allari Mogudu (Telugu/1992) and Banarasi Babu, which wasn’t any huge results in 1997, was primarily based on Pattikada Pattanama (Tamil/1972) with its plot written on the lines of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.