It is not an unknown fact that Ali Abbas Zafar's Bharat is an official adaptation of the South Korean hit, Ode To My Father which was released in the year 2014. Now it has been learnt that Ali Abbas and Salman Khan who is playing the lead role in the film has tweaked the script of Bharat a bit to make it suitable to the Indian audience.
While they were impressed with the Korean drama, Salman felt that the remake would strike a chord with viewers if they added a more emotional flavour to the narrative. Before taking his period drama on floors, Zafar submitted the final draft to the makers of the South Korean film — director Yoon Je-kyoon, co-producer Park Ji-seong and writer Park Su-ji — who greenlit the revised script and accepted it.
A source from the creative team said, "When Ali started drafting the script, he didn't want it to be a scene-to-scene adaptation. After discussing with Salman, he decided to increase the emotional quotient in the drama. He also made Katrina's character meatier as compared to her counterpart in the original."
Co-producer Nikhil Namit said, "Contrary to speculation, Katrina did not ask for her role to be increased. We had fleshed out the role right from the beginning, even before Priyanka Chopra left the movie. Salman has also given his creative inputs to the script. The Korean team has read the revised version and felt that we have adapted it well." Namit added that running the script by the South Korean team wasn't part of the contract. "But we thought of getting their feedback."
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