The trend of making a remake from foreign television series and movies is prevalent not just in India, but also in our neighboring country, Pakistan. While Indian people were busy debating who would play all the characters in a Hindi remake of “Money Heist”, Pakistan went ahead and actually made their own version of the show.
The famous television series, “Money Heist” was originally made in Spanish (“La casa de Papel” which means “The House of Paper”). It was based on the two long prepared robberies. These robberies were carried on at the Royal Mint of Spain and Bank of Spain. It was one of the most-watched non-English series.
The Pakistani moviemakers decided to come up with its Pakistani version when the world is already in love with this series. The movie was titled “50 Crore”. Later, a teaser was released online by the makers. It showed an uncanny resemblance to the original.
Take a look at the teaser of the “50 Crore”:
#50crore #action #ComingSoon #aijazaslam pic.twitter.com/GwGKtGkLhp
— aijaz aslam (@aijazz7) October 18, 2020
The star cast includes Aijaz Aslam, Anoushay Abbasi, Faysal Quraishi, Zhalay Sarhadi, Saboor Aly, Asad Siddiqui, Naveed Raza, and Mehmood Aslam. Their characters were named after different cities of Pakistan.
Unfortunately, Twitter users did not like this idea much. They were calling it a cheap copy (sasti copy) of the original. Since the netizens wanted some original content and not something copied from other movies or series and never a thing that they have already seen, so they were all quite angry about it. And with the release of the movie “50 Crore” posters, it was finally confirmed that it was the remake of “Money Heist”.
Consequently, the Pakistani moviemakers are being slammed for their lack of imagination. As a result, memes and jokes started flooding on the micro-blogging site Twitter. What amused the netizens more was the financial condition of Pakistan. Well, everybody knows about the financial condition of Pakistan. It is like an open secret. And the worst part is that the majority of countries are in no mood to help them by giving loans either. Twitteratis also made fun of their financial situation as well. Some trolled the series by saying that since there would be no funds in Pakistani banks or their server might be down, so the heist team would return without any money out of it.
Let us look at some of the tweets about the Pakistani version of “Money Heist”:
What is this behavior? Yeh secondhand Money Heist version kis ne order kiya? #50Crore pic.twitter.com/rqCEUYx8Lj
— Amal Zuhair 🇵🇸 (@amalzuhair89) October 19, 2020
Money heist♥️ Money waste💩#MoneyHeist #50Crore pic.twitter.com/7gmJAe6SNX
— Tahreem🌸 (@tweetsbytahreem) October 18, 2020
So Pakistanis copied La Casa De Papel and turned it into a movie? 🤢 DO WE NOT HAVE BRAINS THAT WORK CAN WE PLEASE BE ORIGINAL FOR ONCE??? pic.twitter.com/8Lr1sapdJw
— Flaming Hot Cheeto Dust🐾👻 (@Lanaschild_) October 18, 2020
Pic 1 : Money Heist
Pic 2 : Money Heist Lite#50Crore pic.twitter.com/sFFJ4StRpj— An Indian Like You (@MrAmbiDexter_) October 21, 2020
Money heist 1080p Money heist 144p#50Crore pic.twitter.com/STdJGmi7eO
— IHassanHK👑 (beti ke birthday) (@hmuhammadhk11) October 18, 2020
In Pakistan’s money heist/ #50Crore
They need to rob the politicians instead of a bank. #MoneyHeist— #FreePalestin🇵🇰🇵🇸 (@GoDieZaynab) October 18, 2020
In Pakistani Money Heist, Professor’s team goes to the State Bank of Pakistan, only to find that there is no money in the vault..
— Naila Inayat (@nailainayat) October 20, 2020
Pakistani money heist mein chor bank jayengay aur teller bolayga “Sorry sir. Server down hai. Come back later.”
— Ariba Shahid (@AribaShahid) October 18, 2020
Money Heist (Siraiki Version)#50Crore pic.twitter.com/DTXpcyktqM
— Siddiq Olia ❤️ (@OliaSiddiq) October 20, 2020
Money heist Pakistan can never work. They’d be stuck in the traffic outside any bank
— Noor (@dojadoggo) October 18, 2020
Money heist pakistan wale ALLIED BANK jyenge or jawab milega
“Abhi paise ni aye baad me aana”— Bunny❤️ (@ashumaddy7) October 19, 2020
why tf is pakistan making sasta money heist…. pic.twitter.com/xoI7jQtV9N
— vase⁷ (@TAEHYUNGZERO) October 18, 2020
Money Heist Pakistan in the making?
ugh 2020 seriously needs to STOP. The lack of shameless plagiarism and lack of own creativity is such an embarrassment.— Anam 👽 (@SpoookyAnam) October 19, 2020
When you order Denver and Nairobi from wish#50crore
(le ke koi original content produce karlo bhai) pic.twitter.com/hRbk8r9QjJ— That’s Not My Name (@callmebaji) October 19, 2020
TOKYO ordered from daraz #MoneyHeist #50Crore pic.twitter.com/XC8kqKvFCb
— Balaj Khan (@Cancerian94) October 18, 2020
WHY’D THEY NOT CAST FAWAD KHAN FOR PROFESSOR???? #50Crore
— Naina (@ayshajdke) October 18, 2020
Yaar you know what, I don’t care if this Pakistani show is a straight rip off of Money Heist because 95% of Pakistan’s population hasn’t watched Money Heist but if this show does turn out to be engaging, it’ll prove that we’re willing to watch new genres of TV.
— Glorified Mazdoor (@naaninclusive) October 18, 2020
Yes, a lot of popular shows undergo remakes in different countries and the results are mostly disastrous. But, people still have not learned the lesson that it’s not okay to copy. Especially at the time when it’s turning out to be extremely cringy. Also, a “Money Heist” remake in Pakistan without naming someone Lahore is kind of weird. Seriously!!
