Trailer: John Abraham Is India's Man From Nowhere In ROCKY HANDSOME

India is well known as a spawning ground for remakes and ripoffs or popular films. However, what is less well known is their increasing tendency to officially license films for remake and the increasingly wide net they cast when hunting down the best material.

Case in point: Rocky Handsome.

Rocky Handsome is an upcoming film starring Bollywood beefcake John Abraham (Jism, Dhoom) as a hitman trying to rescue an adorable little girl from a gang of very bad men. If the scenario sounds familiar, it should, because Rocky Handsome is a remake of Won Bin starrer The Man From Nowhere. TMFN was one of 2010's biggest surprises and is among the finest Korean revenge films of the last fifteen years, a feat not easily accomplished. Now Abraham and his own production company are looking to recreate that magic with their Bollywood adaptation.

While the trailer doesn't yet have subtitles available, the action does most of the talking. For you fans of The Man From Nowhere, you'll also notice a large number of very familiar shots and set ups from that film. While Rocky Handsome does appear to incorporate Bollywood's penchant for melodrama and excessive romance, it also manages to recreate many of The Man From Nowhere's iconic sequences. Not to mention the fact that it looks incredibly stabby, which places it pretty high on the scale of faithfulness to source material.

Abraham isn't a great actor, but he looks great on screen and works well in pulpy material like this. I really enjoyed her performance as a smarmy hood in Sanjay Gupta's Shootout at Wadala, and I think could be right in his wheelhouse. Rocky Handsome opens on March 25th and I'll be there to let you all know how this thing pans out. In the meantime, check out the trailer for this new one and let me know what you think. Is this a waste of time, or potentially kinda cool?