While making a sequel, remake or reboot may appear as a cash grab for the makers, for the audience, it is like waiting for a second helping at a buffet table, where one is sure to lose one’s appetite while waiting for the refill. Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas and Farhan Akhtar’s Don are remakes of their earlier versions and Anurag Kashyap’s Dev D is a reboot of Devdas. Here the stories progress in the same cinematic universe. While a series of films that share a thread of the same cinematic universe is termed as franchise Auteur Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito and Apur Sansar) is a sequel, Hrithik Roshan’s Krrish is a sequel of Koi Mil Gaya. But, at the onset, one should understand what is a sequel, and what differentiates it from remakes, reboots or a franchise. That is how these follow-up films – sequels, prequels, reboots, remakes, or spin-offs happen. Similarly, a filmmaker or a studio loves the money the film rakes, and they want to make more. In a typical scenario, if you love a film- you want more. But is the audience receptive to such long-awaited films, especially since sequels flourish because nostalgia is a powerful tool that attracts the audience to their pre-existing relationship to a story or world. Both films were warmly received by the audience.With James Cameron’s Avatar 2 expected to release 13 years after its first edition, we realise that the list of belated or wide-gapped sequels is long. Similarly, Mary Poppins Returns was released exactly 54 years and 120 days after its first edition, Mary Poppins which was released in 1964. Bambi was released in 1942, and Bambi II was released in 2006. On records, the longest gap between sequels is approximately 64 years.
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