Kangna Ranaut’s Queen saw both commercial and critical applause in Hindi. Generally, Bollywood hit concepts instantly enthuse our South film makers and the buzz is sustaining till today on a possible Telugu, Tamil and Kannada remake of ‘Queen’ while producer, director and artist Thyagarajan is holding the whole South remake rights.
Few months back, announcement from Thyagarajan on roping Tamanna as heroine for Telugu, Tamil versions was definitely new. But months went off and now reports are out on ‘Queen’ remake has been almost shelved owing to unbalanced commercial equations.
Summing up Tamanna’s remuneration, production costs, remake rights value and other expenditure on promotion etc, Thyagarajan fell in dual minds pushing the three remakes on hold.
One has to accept that an artist of Kangna’s caliber is a tough find for South. Though Tamanna is a wonderful actress to pull of the central lead with her own charm but rate of success at Box Office cannot be as big as ‘Queen’ or for that matter Thyagarajan’s investment interests also cannot be safeguarded.