Pawan Kumar’s ‘U Turn’ to be remade in Filipino

Director Pawan Kumar recently confirmed that his hit Kannada movie U-Turn will be remade in Filipino. He shared the news through his social media page, “Just got to know – Kim Chiu, JM De Guzman, and Tony Labrusca are teaming up for a Filipino adaptation of Indian box-office hit U-Turn, a mystery thriller film that first came out in theatres in 2016.”

According to the director, it is possible that the film will be remade in Chinese and Thai too as filmmakers from those countries have shown interest. We can expect an official word on it soon.

Incidentally, ‘U-Turn’ was the first Kannada film to be remade in all the south Indian languages and in Sinhalese.

U-Turn hit the marquee in 2016 and turned out to a blockbuster. A mystery thriller, the film had Shraddha Srinath, Radhika Chetan, Dileep Raj and Roger Narayan in the star cast. 

U Turn was bankrolled by the director himself under his banner Pawan Kumar Studios on a budget of Rs 2.5 crore. The film was both a commercial as well as critical success. The technical crew of U-Turn comprised Poornachandra Tejaswi for scoring the music, cinematographers Advaitha Gurumurthy, Sathya Hegde and Siddharth Suni cranking the camera and Suresh Arumugam for editing.

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