Question: Do both films A Wednesday! and Bombay To Goa have the directors from the same country?

S. Ramanathan( 1929 – 9 January 2013 in Chennai) was an Indian film director and producer. He began as a director in Malayalam cinema, but in the 1970s he worked in the Hindi industry and worked with Amitabh Bachchan on several occasions such as in" Bombay to Goa"( 1972) and" Mahaan"( 1983). " Zamaanat", a project with Bachchan which had been delayed since 1986, was released after his death in 2013. He produced several Kannada films along with his brother Shivaram and formed the home banner" Rashi Brothers". <SEP> Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor. He has appeared in both films and television series. <SEP> Pandey made his directoral debut in" A Wednesday!", which was largely praised by audiences as well as critics and which later became a recipient of many accolades. His second film was" Special 26"( 2013), which was followed by" Baby"( 2015), the latter of which received critical acclaim and became a huge commercial success. He served as a producer in" Rustom"( 2016). Pandey returned to directing in 2016 helming the biopic based on renowned Indian cricketer M.S. Dhoni which fared well critically and commercially. Besides being a filmmaker, Pandey is also a writer and has written a novel named" Ghalib Danger" in 2013. In 2016, his production house Friday Filmworks entered into a joint venture with Reliance Entertainment and formed Plan C Studios. He has also directed a Web Short' Ouch' with Manoj Bajpayee and Pooja Chopra which is nominated for Filmfare Short Film Award 2017. He was the co-producer of the blockbuster" Toilet- Ek Prem Katha" which won critical appreciation from the film industry and the audience. His next release was" Aiyaary" which starred Sidharth Malhotra and Manoj Bajpayee and was both critically and commercially unsuccessful, becoming his first failed venture. Neeraj Pandey( born 17 December 1973) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. <SEP> Ekadantha is a 2007 Indian Kannada language comedy- drama film directed and written by Bollywood actor- director Sachin starring Vishnuvardhan, Prema and Ramesh Aravind in the lead roles. It features soundtrack from Gurukiran. Released on 16 March 2007, the film met with average and critical response at the box-office. The film is a remake of director's own 2004 Marathi film" Navra Maza Navsacha" which was inspired by the 1972 Hindi movie" Bombay to Goa" which in turn was a remake of 1966 Tamil movie" Madras to Pondicherry". <SEP> It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher. Set between 2 pm and 6 pm on a Wednesday, the film depicts an about- to- retire police commissioner( Anupam Kher) narrating a sequence of events that unfolded on a particular Wednesday. There does not exist any written record. The awareness of the incident exists only in his mind and in those of several individuals who were involved, willingly and unwillingly, and how those events affected the lives of all the concerned people. It served as an inspiration and was later remade in Tamil as" Unnaipol Oruvan", and in Telugu as" Eeenadu"( with Kamal Hassan in the role played by Naseeruddin Shah in the original for both versions and Mohanlal and Daggubati Venkatesh playing the role acted by Anupam Kher in the original in Tamil and Telugu respectively), and also the Hollywood movie" A Common Man"( directed by Chandran Rutnam with actor Ben Kingsley portraying the role played by Nasseruddin Shah and Ben Cross portraying the role played by Anupam Kher). The film, made at a small budget, was a sleeper hit at the box office grossing over Rs. 340 million worldwide. Despite its low promotion, it was a box office success due to critical acclaim and positive word- of- mouth. Box Office India declared it a hit. Critics praised the movie for its effective storyline and its twist ending. Subsequently, it won a number of awards including the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 56th National Film Awards. A Wednesday! is a 2008 Indian thriller film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey. <SEP> The movie is known particularly for its catchy tunes. It was a" Super Hit" At the box office. The film is a remake of a 1966 hit Tamil film" Madras to Pondicherry". The role played by Nagesh in Tamil version was reprised by Mehmood in the Hindi version. " Bombay to Goa" was remade in 2007 with the same title, with an ensemble cast of comedians. Bombay to Goa is a 1972 Indian adventure- comedy film directed by S. Ramanathan, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Aruna Irani in lead roles, Shatrughan Sinha as the main antagonist and Mehmood. It was reported that the 2004 Marathi movie" Navra Maza Navsacha", which was also remade in Kannada in 2007 as" Ekadantha" was heavily inspired by this movie. " The Hindu" had reported that Rajiv Gandhi was offered the lead role by Mehmood but he had turned it down.