Ride and Polladavam stories are similar?

There had been rumors that the stories of Polladavam and Ride are similar. Polladavan is being remade in Telugu with Varun Sandesh as hero. Ride sports Nani and Tanish as heroes. A legal notice issued by Gemini Kiran in prominent newspapers that he holds Telugu remake rights Polladavan also added fuel to this speculation. When contacted by idlebrain.com Ride’s director Ramesh Varma said that Polladavan film is about a guy searching for his lost bike in the entire movie. But Ride is not about lost bike. The lost bike in ride will be found in 5 minutes. The basic concept of Ride is about the conflict caused by a bike between two thick friends. He also said that Vakada Appa Rao – executive producer of Polladavan Telugu remake listened to the story of Ride and there are no similarities in the stories. Incidentally Polladavan film is loosely based on Italian black and white masterpiece ‘The Bicycle Thief’.