Question: Nee Thanda Kanike is loosely based on a 1981 movie directed by who?

Context articles: Azhagana Naatkal
A Grande Arte
Arthur (1981 film)
Beau Travail
Nee Thanda Kanike
Nee (film)
Vinashak – Destroyer
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Spaceblazer
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

Azhagana Naatkal (English: Beautiful Days ) is a 2001 comedy Tamil film directed by Sundar C.
 The film featured Karthik and Rambha in the lead roles and became the third collaboration of the pair with Sundar after the successes of "Ullathai Allitha" (1996) and "Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga" (1999).
 The film also featured Mumtaj, Goundamani and Senthil in pivotal roles and featured music composed by Deva.
 The film released on 7 December 2001 to average reviews from critics.
 The film is a remake of the Malayalam film "Minnaram".
 The film is loosely based on Jaishankar movie "Penne Nee Vazhga".
A Grande Arte (in English, "The Great Art"; US title: Exposure), is a 1991 Brazilian movie directed by Walter Salles Jr. and starring Peter Coyote.
 Loosely based on the book "A Grande Arte" by Brazilian Rubem Fonseca, it is one of the first theatrical works of Salles Jr.
 The cast includes Brazilian and international stars such as Coyote, Tchéky Karyo and Miguel Angel Fuentes.
Arthur is a 1981 American comedy film written and directed by Steve Gordon.
 The film stars Dudley Moore as the eponymous Arthur Bach, a drunken New York City millionaire who is on the brink of an arranged marriage to a wealthy heiress, but ends up falling for a common working-class girl from Queens.
 It was the first and only film directed by Gordon, who died in 1982 of a heart attack at age 44.
Beau Travail (] , French for "good work") is a 1999 French movie directed by Claire Denis that is loosely based on Herman Melville's 1888 novella "Billy Budd".
 The movie is set in Djibouti, where the protagonists are soldiers in the French Foreign Legion.
 Parts of the soundtrack of the movie are from Benjamin Britten's opera based on the novella.
Nee Thanda Kanike (Kannada: ನೀ ತಂದ ಕಾಣಿಕೆ) is a 1985 Indian Kannada film, directed by Dwarakish and produced by Dwarakish.
 The film stars Vishnuvardhan, Girish Karnad, Jayasudha and C. R. Simha in lead roles.
 The film had musical score by Vijayanand.
 It is a remake of the Hindi hit film Sharaabi (1984) starring Amitabh Bachchan and Jayaprada which itself was loosely based on the 1981 American movie "Arthur".
Nee (Tamil: நீ) (English: You?)
 is a 1966 Indian Tamil film, directed by T. R. Ramanna and produced by T. K. Ramaraj.
 The film stars Jaishankar, Jayalalithaa, Jayasingh, Nagesh in lead roles.
 The film had musical score by M. S. Viswanathan.
Yaar Nee Movie was released 1966 the same year Nee was released this movie also thriller movie and acted by the same film stars Jaishankar and J. Jayalalitha.
Vinashak – Destroyer is a 1998 Indian Hindi action movie directed by Ravi Dewan and starring Sunil Shetty, Raveena Tandon and Danny Denzongpa.
 It is loosely based on Jean-Claude Van Damme starrer "Death Warrant".
Doraemon the Movie: The New Records of Nobita's Spaceblazer (映画ドラえもん 新・のび太の宇宙開拓史 , Eiga Doraemon Shin Nobita No Uchu Kaitakushi ) , also known as Doraemon The Hero 2009 and The New Record of Nobita Spaceblazer, is an anime film, released in Japan on March 7, 2009.
 It's the 29th Doraemon film.
 It is the remake of the 1981 movie .
 This is the first film released during the celebration of TV Asahi's 50th Anniversary.
 It has also been voted the No.1 Movie in Japan as of March 9, 2009.
 This movie was ranked 4th highest grossing Japanese animated movie.
 This film was aired on Disney Channel India on 5 September 2015 as Doraemon The Movie: Adventures Of Koya Koya Planet.
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag – Journey Of A Woman (Hindi: लागा चुनरी में दाग , Urdu: ‎ , English: "My Veil is Stained") is a 2007 Indian drama film directed by Pradeep Sarkar and starring Rani Mukerji, Jaya Bachchan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kunal Kapoor and Anupam Kher with special appearances by Abhishek Bachchan and Hema Malini.
 Produced by Aditya Chopra it premiered on 12 October 2007.
 The film was the first directed by Sarkar under the Yash Raj Films banner.The movie is loosely inspired by the 1981 movie "Ahista Ahista" which itself was a remake of 1969 Kannada movie "Gejje Pooje".
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (German: "Die Liebesbriefe einer portugesischen Nonne") is a 1977 West German-Swiss movie directed by Jesús Franco and produced by Erwin Dietrich, loosely based on the "Letters of a Portuguese Nun" attributed to Mariana Alcoforado.
 It starred Susan Hemingway and William Berger.
 Franco co-wrote the screenplay with producer Dietrich.