 The film has been remade in various languages across India . The film was remade into Tamil as <unk> by Prabhu Deva featuring Vijay and Asin in the lead roles , and marked Deva 's debut as a director of Tamil cinema . Deva remade the film into Hindi as Wanted in 2009 featuring Salman Khan and Ayesha Takia . Wanted became the second highest grossing Hindi film of all time at that point . Pokiri was remade into Kannada as <unk> in 2010 by M. D. Sridhar featuring <unk> and <unk> Subhash in the lead roles . 
