Question: Are director of film Bearcity and director of film Seeta Aur Geeta both from the same country?

Ganga Manga is a 1973 Telugu- language comedy- drama film in which Vanisri played a dual role as Ganga and Manga. Krishna and Sobhan Babu played main roles. The film was a remake of the Hindi film" Seeta Aur Geeta". The film was also made in Tamil as" Vani Rani", with Vanisri reprising her roles. <SEP> It stars Joe Conti as a young gay man in the" twink" category who fantasizes about larger, hairier men known as" bears", and his search to find the perfect man. The sequel was released in the fall of 2012. " BearCity 3" was funded by an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, and had a limited release at various LGBT festivals and venues in 2016, and received a full release digitally and on home media in 2017. A novelization of the film, also written by Lawrence Ferber, was published by Lethe Press' Bear Bones imprint in 2013. BearCity is a 2010 American gay- themed comedy- drama film directed by Doug Langway, and written by Langway and Lawrence Ferber. <SEP> Vani Rani is a 1974 Indian Tamil- language film, initially directed by Tapi Chanakya and finished by C. V. Rajendran, and produced by B. Nagi Reddy and Chakrapani. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Vanisri, R. Muthuraman and K. A. Thangavelu in lead roles. The film had musical score by K. V. Mahadevan. It is a remake of the Hindi film" Seeta Aur Geeta". The film was also made in Telugu as" Ganga Manga" with Vanisri reprising her roles. <SEP> It stars Hema Malini, Dharmendra and Sanjeev Kumar in leading roles, and features music composed by R.D. Burman. The story is about identical twins( played by Hema Malini) who are separated at birth and grow up with different temperaments. The twins then swap places( like" The Prince and the Pauper"). The two sisters' partners in the movie are played by Dharmendra and Sanjeev Kumar. Manorama plays the evil aunt who changes her tune after her arm is twisted( literally). Furthermore, Hema Malini was noted for the novelty of her role as Geeta where she is rambunctious and sometimes violent. The main theme of this movie was copied from the superhit Tamil movie Enga Veettu Pillai starring Superstar M. G. Ramachandran. As hinted in the Wikipedia page, it is said that the producer of this movie B. Nagi Reddy was furious with Salim- Javed for copying his story and hence he went on to quickly move on to making remakes in other languages include the Telugu film" Ganga Manga"( 1973) and the Tamil film" Vani Rani"( 1974), both starring Vanisri in the dual roles. This Tamil film was remade as" Ram Aur Shyam" starring Dilip Kumar in the leading dual role, which inspired Salim- Javed to write" Seeta Aur Geeta", but they subverted the formula by having the heroine eventually become the" hero" while the male lead is in a mostly supporting role. Another earlier film with a similar theme was" Muqabala"( 1942) starring Fearless Nadia. Subsequent Hindi remakes of the story have been made, including" Jaise Ko Taisa" starring Jeetendra," ChaalBaaz" starring Sridevi," Kishen Kanhaiya" starring Anil Kapoor," Judwaa" starring Salman Khan" Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi" starring Kajol, in the dual roles. Hema Malini won her only competitive Filmfare Best Actress Award of her career. Seeta aur Geeta( Seeta and Geeta) is a 1972 Indian Bollywood comedy- drama film, written by Salim- Javed( Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar) and directed by Ramesh Sippy. P. Vaikunth won the Filmfare Best Cinematographer Award. In 1976, the film was shown in the Soviet Union where it was a success. <SEP> He is a winner of the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2013. Sippy's father was producer G. P. Sippy. Ramesh Sippy( born 23 January 1947) is an Indian film director and producer, best known for directing the popular and critically acclaimed film" Sholay". His son Rohan Sippy is a film director. His daughter Sheena was once married to Shashi Kapoor's son, Kunal Kapoor until they divorced in 2004. Ramesh Sippy has been married twice; his current wife is actress Kiran Juneja. <SEP> His first feature film," Raising Heroes", was released in 1996. Langway is the president and CEO of Sharpleft Studios, a media and marketing firm which also serves as his production studio for the" BearCity" films. He is openly gay. Douglas( Doug) Langway is an American screenwriter and film director, best known for his film trilogy" BearCity", and" Bear City 3". He also appears as himself in Malcolm Ingram's 2010 documentary film" Bear Nation", and is a producer of Ingram's 2015 documentary film" Out to Win".