Deva (2025)

The 2013 Malayalam film Mumbai Police was a critically and commercially successful psychological action thriller. It was later remade in 2023 in Telugu as Hunt, which failed badly. Now, the original has been remade in Hindi as Deva. Not remade per se, but adapted to suit the Bollywood audience.

While Hunt was a faithful remake in terms of screenplay, Deva introduces several changes, including an altered climax. Many of these changes were done to make it massy, resulting in the sanitisation of certain taboo sequences and some loss of subtlety. But it still manages to do justice t....