Magizh has never openly discussed that VM is a 'Breakdown' remake. Why?

In all recent interviews, he just says things like 'this story actually came to me from AK sir, it was his idea'. Why can't he just say 'we happened to see a movie called Breakdown and felt it would work well for our industry with AK'?

i haven't seen him mention the remake aspect anywhere at all? What's wrong in saying so