Dayal Padmanabhan to start work on the Tamil remake of his award-winning film Aa Karaala Ratri this year

The filmmaker announced that a Hindi version of the State Award-winning film is also in the works

Karthik Jayaram and Anupama Gowda in a still from Aa Karaala Ratri

Yesterday marked four years since Dayal Padmanabhan’s Aa Karaala Ratri released in theatres. The film not only did well at the box office, but was also adjudged the Best Film of 2018 at the Karnataka State Film Awards. Dayal won Best Director, while Veena Sundar was Best Supporting Actress for the film.

The film, which had Jayaram, Anupama Gowda, Rangayana Raghu and Veena Sundar in the lead, with Ashita Chandrappa, Naveen Krishna and Jaya Srinivasan also on the cast, was subsequently remade by Dayal in Telugu as Anaganaga O Athidhi, which got a direct-to-OTT release on Aha Telugu. Also, although a Hindi dubbed version, Ghatak Raat is available to stream on Youtube, Dayal, who’s also produced Aa Karaala Ratri, sold its Hindi remake rights to Madhu Reddy, with pre-production on the film currently on.

In a long social media post to celebrate four years of Aa Karaala Ratri, Dayal also announced that the Tamil remake of the film will go on floors this year. He wrote, “4 years of AA KARAALA RATRI: On this day, once again I thank the Kannada cinema audience for accepting AKR ..! In the 4 years, AKR kept reaching other Indian languages and making its own mark apart from bagging best film, best director and best supporting actor award from GoK ..! It was Remade in Telugu which was directed by me and Produced by aha Video. It has been remade in Malayalam produced by Sree Gokulam movies starring Kunchako Boban and others under the title Pagalum Pathiravum which is ready for release! Dubbed in Hindi by B4U and its content in YT...! Hindi remake rights has been bagged by the popular producer Madhu Reddy( Tagore Madhu) and the pre production is going on..! And this year , I will be directing it in Tamil ..!”

Aa Karaala Ratri is a film based on a play by Mohan Habbu, which, in turn, was the translation of the English play Lithuania, based on the Russian story The Return of the Soldier.

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