JOGI’ JABARDAST
Sold for highest remake price

Report by - CNB        Photos - K.M. VEERESH        Date -25th August  2005 Time -119.30 AM

Perhaps in the annals of Kannada cinema history the highest remake rights could be attributed to ‘Jogi’ Kannada film. The outright sale for Tamil and Telugu remake rights put forward by Mr Vellam Kota Suresh for Rs.1.08 crores has been turned down. Instead only for Telugu remake rights the ‘Jogi’ story has been sold for Rs.63 lakhs says the gleeful Prem talking to media persons at Chancery Hotel in Bangalore on the day of release of the film. Prem himself is making it in Tamil. In the queue there are 8 persons asking for the rights. But he is hell bent on doing it in Tamil – reason the mother and son sentiment aptly suits Tamil cinema he says.

‘Jogi’ has many records to its credit. 72 prints on the 72 years of Kannada films, 172 theatres release and 353 show a day is the startling news. The first week share of ‘Jogi’ for Ashwini Ramprasad is Rs.3 crores excluding the theatre that comes to around Rs.2 crores.

One of the many crazes for ‘Jogi’ that has built up is like this – a youth in Hubli partially drunk hits bottles on his head saying Prem has brought my real life story on screen – I could not see my mother before cremation. 

I want to create a sensation like ‘Jogi’ in the audio for my next film says Prem. He is producing another with the same team and for the same producer.