The Netflix tab for South Korean films and shows is getting more crowded. Nestled amidst the K-dramas Crash Landing on You and What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim and the period movie Kingdom is a healthy set of moody, stylish gangster dramas. The latest addition is Night in Paradise, which was premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020.
The movie has been written and directed by Park Hoon-jung, whose credits include the screenplay for I Saw The Devil, which inspired the Hindi film Ek Villain, and New World, which provided plot points for Chekka Chivantha Vaanam. Not surprisingly, Night in Paradise, about a gangster who develops a relationship with a terminally ill woman, is ripe for an official Indian remake too.
Three elements in Night in Paradise are likely to survive the long journey from South Korea to India. The first is the gangster setting, which yields a brooding hero with a troubled past and an unsure present.
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