Bollywood has started looking away from the West for remake ideas

Films that Bollywood remakes are based on, by industry/language (share in %)

Regional Indian languages: Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali and Punjabi.
Analysis covers all 317 Bollywood remakes out of the 1,000 films that featured in the annual top 50 from 2000 to 2019 (in terms of box office revenue)

Source: Author's calculations, Mint research Get the data