Claim: All remakes of Saamy refused to cast Sanjay Dutt.
Evidence: It was remade in Telugu as Lakshmi Narasimha -LRB- 2004 -RRB- starring Nandamuri Balakrishna and Asin , in Bengali as Barood starring Mithun Chakraborty , in Kannada as Ayya -LRB- 2005 -RRB- starring Darshan and Rakshitha and later in Hindi as Policegiri -LRB- 2013 -RRB- starring Sanjay Dutt and Prachi Desai.