both films were equally good (or equally bad), but in different ways . Does PC Barua's Devdas = Bimal Roy's Devdas = Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas = Anurag Kashyap's Dev D ? To take an even more direct example, Gus Van Sant made an almost shot-by-shot, dialogue-by-dialogue tribute-remake of Alfred Hitchcock's