Tamil Copycat movies

Here I have collected the Tamil movies that have copied from hollywood movies. Some movies were copied from other language movies such as German, French too. Some movies have scene by scene copy from hollywood movie and in some movies only the plot has been extracted. Few movies listed here were
accepted by directors that the movie is remade from the hollywood movie. Some directors never accept that they have copied even we have several proofs.


Not all the Tamil copied movies were blockbuster. Only talented director like K.S.Ravikumar, Sundar C reached their goal. From this list it is clear that we can give Biggest Tamil copycat award to K.S.Ravikumar. He copied many movies which are not included in the list. Emerging copycat award goes to Gautham Vasudev Menon, he is very talented guy choosing only the main theme of the movie and present that in Tamil. That makes us to confuse whether this movie is copied or not.


We can leave the directors who succeed by copying movies from Hollywood. There are some directors who delivered poor movie even after copying. Those Tamil directors  were fit for nothing.


The list of Kollywood Copycat Movie goes below:

Copied movies directed by K.S.Ravikumar

Very Bad Things - Panchatantram

Mrs. Doubtfire - Avvai Shanmugi
What About Bob? - Thenali 

Romance on the High Seas - Manmadan Ambu 

Copied movies directed by Sundar C

Brewster's Millions - Arunachalam directed by Sundar C

Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Anbe Sivam directed by Sundar C 

Soul Kitchen - Kalakalappu directed by Sundar C

Copied movies directed by Gautham Menon

Derailed - Pachaikili Muthucharam directed by Gautham Menon

500 days of Summer - Vinnaithandi Varuvaya

Tamil hit movies copied from hollywood 

Memento - Ghajini  directed by A. R. Murugadoss
I Am Sam - Deiva Thirumagal directed by A. L. Vijay

Judgment Night - Saroja directed by Venkat Prabhu
She-Devil - Sathi Leelavathi directed by Balu Mahendra

The Dawns Here are Quiet - Peranmai Directed S. P. Jananathan 

Dog Bite Dog - Mynaa directed by Prabu Solomon

Big - New produced by S. J. Surya. 

Average Tamil copycat moviesBeyond the Clouds - Autograph directed by Cheran

Red Corner - Dhaam Dhoom Directed  by Jeeva

The Bank Job - Naanayam directed by Shakti S. Rajan.

On the Line - Enakku 20 Unakku 18 directed by Jyothi Krishna

Kikujiro - Nandalala directed by Myshkin

Bangkok Dangerous - Pattiyal directed by Vishnuvardhan

Tsotsi - Yogi directed by Subramaniya Shiva

Father of the Bride - Abhiyum Naanum directed by Radha Mohan.

Strangers on a Train - Muran directed by debutant Rajjan Madhav

Tamil copycat flop movies 

Green Card  - Nala Damayanthi directed by Mouli
Falling Down - Evano Oruvan  directed by Nishikant Kamat
Changing Lanes - TN-07 AL 4777 directed by A.Lakshmikanthan
I Hired a Contract Killer - Bale Pandiya  directed by Siddharth Chandrasekhar
The Classic - Chikku Bhukku directed by Manikandan