As a matter of fact, another major film in Ajay's career, Omkara, too bears Sanskrit origin, hence turning out to be quite an uncanny trend in the actor's films.
When it came to finalising the title for Ajay Devgn's Friday release Drishyam, there wasn't much debate around leaving it as it is. Though a few other titles were considered, it was unanimously agreed that the film would continue to be called so. Here is the reason why. Not just did Ajay believe that the name had already stuck in people's mind, it has also turned out to be a trend of sorts where a Sanskrit title has gone in the favor of his films.
"First it was Singham, now it is Drishyam and tomorrow it will be Shivaay. Each of these is a Sanskrit word. Yes, it has been a coincidence of sorts since Singham as well as Drishyam are actually remakes and Ajay has basically acquired the title. However, Shivaay is an entirely new film and subconsciously turned out to be a Sanskrit word. Given the fact that Singham as well as Singham Returns did so well while Drishyam has done well across all languages that it has been made in so far, Sanskrit is definitely a lucky mascot for Ajay. Now he is mighty excited about Shivaay too," informs our source.
As a matter of fact, another major film in Ajay's career, Omkara, too bears Sanskrit origin, hence turning out to be quite an uncanny trend in the actor's films.
"Well, I never thought about it that way but yes, sometimes certain titles so stick and then you wonder why to change them at all. For Drishyam, there was a brief discussion around the change of title. However, I did feel that there was no point doing so because everyone was anyway calling it as Drishyam remake all this while," says Ajay, "Someone suggested if we should have Drishya as a title but then again it was similar to Drishyam. I remember people debated massively at the time of Singham as they felt it was a Sanskrit word and pan-India audience won't pick it up easily. However, we loved the tone of it and rest is history. Same holds true for Drishyam too," says Ajay.
Tell him that even a title like Bahubali has been picked up well by audience across the country and the film is breaking records in Hindi circuits as well and he nods in agreement.
"That's exactly my point of view," he says, "If a film is good, it will do well even if it does not have a conventional title to it. The word Drishyam has such a strong meaning and relevance to the story. We didn't want to touch it."
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