Is Shahid Kapoor’s Deva a remake of Malayalam film Mumbai Police? Here’s what netizens think

New Delhi: Shahid Kapoor’s latest film Deva might be marketed as a Bollywood masala entertainer, but it has deeper Malayalam roots than you think. Although the makers reportedly deny the fact that Deva is not a remake, there are similarities that the internet cannot ignore. The obvious, Deva is directed by Malayalam film director Rosshan Andrrews who is known to dip into varying genres throughout his career. According to the internet, Deva is a remake of the 2013 Malayalam film Mumbai Police. And we think so too. There are a lot of factors at play.

After the fact that a Malayalam director helmed the film, the second is that the iconic writer-director duo Bobby-Sanjay and Rosshan Andrrews were a part of bringing Deva to life. With Shahid in the lead role, Rosshan secured to get his big break into the Bollywood scene. Well, here is what we think.

When we sat down to look for the basic similarities between Mumbai Police and Deva, three caught our eye immediately. First, the protagonist of the story is hot-headed. In Mumbai Police, it was Prithviraj Sukumaran and in Deva, it was Shahid Kapoor. Further, other ones we found were that the stories go paralleled until the part where the cop gets into an accident, suffers from memory loss and is let back on work cases despite the big handicap. After that, the plots diverge into different territories. Now, let’s see what Redditors have to say about this.

Netizens ask, ‘Is Deva a remake of Mumbai Police?’

Reddit began dissecting Deva’s trailer the moment it was released. A Reddit user picked apart the clip and found some similarities with the 2013 film. The user seemed to have immediately understood that the foundations of the movies, as mentioned above were similar. They listed a few changes they hoped to see in Deva.

Take a look below!

Deva seems like a solid remake of ” Mumbai Police”.
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Did Deva manage to make these changes and rise above the criticisms against the alleged remake? Read through our spoiler-free Deva Review to get more insights.