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Where these films came from

A surprising amount of Hindi cinema is European and American material arriving at two or three removes — and almost never directly. Erich Kästner's 1949 German novel about separated twins became a Disney film, then a Tamil film, and only then a Hindi one. Conan Doyle's hound crossed into a Bengali novel, then a Bengali film, then Hindi, and by the end the moor was a marsh and the hound was a woman singing.

This page is the record of those journeys as we find them. Each line is a film we hold and the thing it came from, with how it got here. Most of the sources are not in this catalogue yet — the intention is to hold them, and the links below are written so that when Dumas or Kurosawa or the Tamil original arrives, it connects to what is already here rather than sitting on its own.

Taken from a novel, a play or another film

The source, and how it travelled.

Remade elsewhere

Films here that were made again in another language.

Dubbed into another language

Reused in a later film

Not a remake - the story was taken up again and rebuilt.

45 sources and remakes on this page, 43 of them pointing at a work we do not hold. That second number is the useful one: it is the list of what to find next.

This page covers where films came from and what came from them. The rest of the research network — the same writers, composers and editors turning up across the catalogue — is on each film’s own page, under Where this leads. 155 connections are recorded altogether.