Bachchan’s unleash the power of Sarkar Raj
Sarkar Raj’s first look was unveiled at the film’s event and the promos are going to be aired really soon. Sarkar Raj is the sequel of RGV’s super hit Sarkar.
As Abhishek says, “The movie shows how Sarkar Subhash Nagre takes a backseat and his son Shankar Nagre takes matters in his hands.”
Lets see how the brand Bachchan raj on the box office when Sarkar Raj is unleashed.
Ash-Abhi to celebrate first anniversary in Miami
It’s almost a year since Abhishek and Aishwariya tied the knot. The beautiful couple will celebrate their first anniversary in Miami, not that they planned the special occasion “It just happened” according to Big B.
Senior Bachchan said, “Abhishek is shooting in Miami for Dostana on their marriage anniversary. And Aishwarya is going to be with him.”
“We’ll get them by a new technology called skyscape to speak from Miami to media persons in Mumbai at the launch of Sarkar Raj – which happens to be on the same evening as their wedding anniversary.”
That’s cute. Hope the stunning couple have many more beautiful married years ahead.:)
Amitabh Bachchan not very happy with RGV’s AAG
With Amitabh Bachchan not being happy about the final product of Sholay’s remake ‘Aag’, RGV’s next film Cobra has come to a stand still. As reported earlier, the Amitabh- Abhishek and Ajay Devgan starer Cobra was RGV’s next ambitious project with the Bachchan clan. After the disastrous response from both public and critics, this project had actually become a dream for RGV but Abhishek came to his rescue by suggesting that Cobra should now have either Saif Ali Khan or Salman Khan to make it interesting. And guess what? Papa Bachchan seems very hopeful about this idea and has again taken interest in reviving RGV’s Cobra.
But to come to think of it…will Salman ever be a part of Bachchan films or rather will Salman be able to do the film because of his imprisonment? And also if Saif or Salman have a slot will Ajay be given any role in the film? God looks like RGV is in real mess, if he convinces one the other will be annoyed…
Ram Gopal Varma’s Sholay and Sarkar 2
Ram Gopal Varma is in news again for two of his much talked about films- Sarkar 2 and his remake of Sholay. The news is that titles of both the films have been changed. Ram Gopal Varma’s Sholay is ‘Aag’ and Sarkar 2 is ‘Sarkar Raj’.
Ramu’s so called remake of Sippy’s Sholay is so different in aspects like atmosphere, characters and relationships that it no more can be called a remake. And for Sarkar Raj, Ramu had already declared that it is not on the lines of Godfather 2. So let us wait and see what does Ramu package this time.
Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay-Synopsis
Synopsis of Ram Gopal Varma’s Sholay as circulated on net:
Film: Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Sushmita Sen, Nisha Kithari, Gaurav Kapoor, Mohanlal, Rajpal Yadav, Urmila Matondkar, Sushant Singh, Ajay Devgan , Abhishek Bachchan, Prashant Raj
Producer: Ram Gopal Varma
Music Director: Ganesh Hegde, Bappi Lahiri
Release Date: 13th July
Synopsis:
A train pulls into C.S.T. station and two young men step off. It’s their very first visit to Mumbai city. Only they are not here to visit. They have arrived with dreams of buying Mumbai out. Poor deluded fools, you might think… but that’s only till the first time you run into them. After that, it’ll be clear enough who’s deluded and who has just been made the fool. For this is a pair of street toughs par excellence… Jai, the younger of the two looks up to Veeru for guidance. Veeru in turn looks out for him. The pair’s loyalty to one another is absolute. Virendra Chavan (Ajay Devgan) and Jai Ranade (Prashant Raj) grew up in Latur together, where they came to be known to their town folk as Veeru & Jai. From their early days, the young men admired success and strength and sought in every which way to emulate it. Veeru went to work as a bodyguard for Sharad Patil, the local political heavyweight. But, when Patil went to jail in a scam, he lost his job. It was then that idea of coming to Mumbai took his fancy. As expected, his prodigy Jai tagged along. So Mumbai it was…Within a week of their arrival on the recommendation of an old acquaintance of theirs called Soorma (Rajpal Yadav) who runs a dance bar, they found work with Shambhul Seth, a criminal with heavy underworld connections and also high on the police scanner. In his pursuit of Shambhul, the Inspector Ranveer (Mohanlal) came into contact with Veeru and Jai. On meeting them, he realized that these were no hardened criminals. Small time hoodlums, perhaps, but deep inside their values were still intact. He chose to appeal to the honesty in them. He exposed them to Shambhul’s criminal past. Veeru and Jai were surprised by this. They agreed to help in whatever way they could. The inspector in the process of trying to get Shambhul got into a deadly trap and both Veeru and Jai in a show of extraordinary courage and strength managed to rescue him and managed to finish off Shambhul seth. But in the bargain, Veeru and Jai had to be arrested as well for associating with a criminal and for a while went to jail. Much later, when the inspector needed help in his hunt for Gabbar Singh (Amitabh Bachchan), his brief impression of these two young men returned to him. Since he could not expect the police to help in a quest for personal revenge, and his principles would not allow him to turn to the underworld for help, he decided to enlist the help of Veeru and Jai.
Mehbooba Urmila in Ramu’s “Sholay”
Ram Gopal Varma has been frozen to death realizing that his secretive shots from the song ‘Mehbooba’ featuring Urmila have leaked on the World Wide Web. “I haven’t given out any pictures. In fact, I don’t intend to show the song in my promos. So it has to be images taken on a mobile camera during the shoot (at Karjat),” Varma said. Well might be possible…But to have a look at one of these pics, it actually doesn’t look like a photo taken from a mobile. What say guys?
Ram Gopal Varma’s Sholay on Friday the 13th
Ram Gopal Varma’s Sholay is finally out of the back burner and ready to see the day’s light on Friday the 13th of July. Yes you heard it right- Friday the 13. Anything that is considered inauspicious in general can easily fall into the auspicious category for Ramu. That is what RGV stands for. So when you tell him that the day is not good he says: “But not by my calendar. I like to do the unthinkable. That’s what I did by doing my own take on Sholay, didn’t I?”
Not a surprise in RGV’s case. There are more surprises to come when the movie releases. After all the ‘n’ number of controversies that hovered around the movie it is finally set to release. The movie has lot many deviations from the original Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay. Starting from the duration of the movie to the scenes, characters and the relationship between each of the characters, everything is new. Good for the viewers and Ramu also says that he won’t use the Urmila-Abhishek Mehbooba song in the promos. Brave decision to avoid a famous number done differently as we all know what Farhan Akhtar had to face for featuring Yeh Mera Dil in the promos. Smart anyway!
RGV’s Sholay in Court
The embargo placed on Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Sholay’ caused after Sascha Sippy, son of Original ‘Sholay’s’ producer Vijay Sippy, submitted a petition against the movie was taken to court. The petition says that Varma had copied the script and the characters of the original film. Sascha Sippy, the director of Sippy Films, had moved court on Oct 19, 2006 for restraining Varma from using the words ‘Sholay’, ‘Gabbar’ and ‘Gabbar Singh’ in the new film. The court had issued notices to Varma, his production House K. Sera Sera’s managing director P M Sanghvi and original Sholay’s producer’s son Ajit Sippy, who sold the production rights for the remake of Sholay to Varma, to file their replies to the allegations in the petition. The petitioner had contended that the script, the three popular words and screenplay of Sholay are the original literary work, protected under the sections 14 and 51 of the Copyright Act of 1957. Maharashtra Advocate General Ravi Kadam who appeared in the court in Varma’s personal capacity asserted that unless his client’s film matches the original Sholay scene-to-scene and dialogue-to-dialogue and in every other respect, it cannot be accused of violating sections 14 and 51 of the Copyright Act of 1957. The next hearing will be on March 2 and it will decide the fate of RGV’s Sholay.
Sholay about mutual admiration
RGV is making the remake of Sholay because he admires the classic movie by the Sippys. And now RGV has found Sushmita who plays the widow in the new version very impressive and says that ‘Silence’ is Sush’s strong weapon.
“Sushmita’s scenes with her screen brother-in-law Mohanlal are among the highlights of ‘Sholay’. So far, she has mostly played talkative characters. But Sholay proves that silences are Sushmita’s forte,” adds Varma. Equally impressed in Sush with the director- “It’s a dream-come-true for me. I just love that man’s creative energy. Varma is one director I’ve waited to work with. I’ve pestered him repeatedly to work together. Even when I was doing Vastu Shastra for his production house, I told him that’s not what I wanted. I wanted to be directed by him” says the lady herself. Varma says to cast Sush is not easy. “There has to be a strong role to offer Sushmita” adds the director.
First Look at Ram Gopal Varma’s Sholay
RGV’s Sholay is different and is reinvented in all its aspects- characterization, situations, songs and even the story line a bit. As the movie moves in a frantic pace towards completion, we give you a sneak-peek look at the movie.
Director’s Quote on his latest remake retold:
“My Sholay is a remix of many westerns and a completely different interpretation of the earlier Sholay. The uniqueness of Sholay’s story is that it’s not a genre film. It’s the story of a man who wants to take revenge. It was supposed to be a dark, violent film where you hate the villain but instead made you love Gabbar Singh. When I first told Amitabh Bachchan that I was remaking Sholay he laughed. He thought I was joking. It took me 10 minutes to convince him I was serious. I narrated the scenes to him and the way I was planning to shoot, adapt and redesign the characters for contemporary times. Ajay and I go back a long way so he has a certain trust in me as a director. I remember when I had narrated the Sholay script to him during the making of Bhoot Ajay was super excited about it. He was the first guy I spoke to about adapting Sholay. My intention of remaking Sholay is not to make a better one but to adapt it. I want to change her clothes and see her in another dress.”
The story unfolds:
Virendra Chavade (Ajay Devgan) and Jai Ranade (Raj) have grown up in Latur together admiring success and strength. They come to Mumbai and start working for Shambhul Seth who is being chased by police inspector Ranbeer (Mohan Lal). When Ranbeer comes into contact with Jai and Veeru he realises their values are still intact, exposes them to Shambhul’s past and makes them help him getting revenge on Gabbar Singh (Amitabh Bachchan). Gabbar, has destroyed the inspector’s family and left behind a grieving widow, Devi (Sushmita Sen), who was married to Ranbeer’s brother. Ghungroo (Nisha Kothari), is Mumbai’s only woman auto-rickshaw driver, who lives close to Ranbeer’s home. She is Devi’s best friend.
All this but the twist remains untold. Let’s wait with some patience to know the ultimate Ramu’s version of Sholay.
Ramu Gopal Varma’s Sholay is not Sippy’s Sholay
Situations are different; songs are different then how can it be that the movie will remain the same. Yes, Rgv’s Sholay is not Sippy’s Sholay. The only song common is Mehbooba Mehbooba. No holi song and no song before the king gabbar will find place in RGV’s Sholay. “In fact,” reveals Ramu, “I decided to retain Mehbooba only because I liked track so much that I had to have it in my film. All the other songs in my film are originals. And for the first time in my cinema I’ve got a group of composers from Bappi Lahiri to Ganesh Hegde to Amar Mohile doing one song each. Every composer has been asked prepare one track each. See, all the songs in Sholay were terribly situational. But my situations will largely be totally different. I want every composer to come up with his best possible music.” The list is not yet over Vishal Bharadwaj has also been invited to do one moody bluesy track for the movie.
That was about songs; even the characters share a much more complex and real relationship with each other. Ramu provides a vivid peek. “The two female protagonists are two different people from the way they were conceived in the earlier film. Also the bum-chum relationship between my Jai (Prashant Raj) and my Veeru (Ajay Devgan) has been entirely changed. They’re no longer pals, but more like the mentor and his pupil. Ajay and Prashant share a guru-shishya relationship.” That makes sense, considering the age difference between the two actors. “No. From the start my Veeru and Jai were conceived as a senior and junior member of the partnership.” Ramu has been shooting with his Veeru and Jai and he’s all praise for his new discovery. “Prashant Raj is superb. Getting him to play Jai has been the best decision I made on Sholay after getting Mr Bachchan to play Gabbar,” says Mr Bachchan.
Latest on Ram Gopal Varma’s Sholay
Pick and drop sessions are going on at Ramu’s sets of Sholay! Oye nahi yaar…I am not talking about the cab pick and drop. Ramu apparently dropped Mohit Ahlawat from his Sholay and picked up Mumbai based model Raj in stead.
Mohit, Varma’s James and Shiva discovery, was believed by Hrithik Roshan. 
He was one of the first actors to be cast in the new Sholay – as Jai, played by Amitabh Bachchan in the the director to have the star-potential of Shah Rukh Khan and original. But now Ramu no longer thinks that Mohit fits the role. What a twist in opinion! Lagta hai Mohit ka Ramu se panga ho gaya! Though Ramu doesn’t bother about dropping his cheela, who has been with him for past six years, Mohit is hurt and is still maintaining silence for his mentor.
Inclusion of Raj has made the casting complete lets see how the chemistry between Ajay Devgan (Veeru) and Raj (Jai) works on screen. But personally I believe Ajay should have an equal to play his friend Jai and not a new comer…what say friends?
