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Last year, actor Ayushmann Khurrana had posted a video of his piano rendition of the Italian track ‘Bella Ciao’ on Twitter. His post came with a plea to Indian filmmakers to remake Netflix’s the most searched show on Google in 2020—and cast him as its protagonist, The Professor. “I’m dying to do something like this,” he wrote. The tweet made one thing clear: not only are popular actors seeing new opportunities in long-format. Only time will tell if a director or producer will grant Khurrana’s wish, but the actor should, perhaps, take heart in a growing trend. There are already a number of international remakes in the 2021 pipeline which will release both theatrically and digitally.