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on 2006/11/1 4:10:54
Wrong! Ramu's Sholay undergoes a ‘see’ change, as a result of the lawsuit filed against him by Sasha Sippy. Radha is now Devi , Basanti is now Ghungroo. What’s more, the two are best friends
Ram Gopal Verma's Sholay is no more Sholay. It's something else altogether. According to extremely reliable sources, Ram Gopal Verma has entirely revamped, refurbished, and re-dressed almost all the immortal characters from Ramesh Sippy's epic.
In fact the relationships that bound the memorable characters in the 1975 epic have also been completely moved around to suit the dark contemporary underworld milieu where Ramu has situated his film.
The mute widow-in-white Radha played by Jaya Bachchan in the earlier kitsch-classic is now named Devi And she no longer wears white, but black. According to Ramu's Sholay she's no longer the Thakur's silently grieving daughter-in-law but the Inspector Ranveer (Mohanlal)'s brother's widow.
Ramu's Devi , a trained nurse, is far more aggressive in her desire for revenge than Radha could ever have been. Her relationship with one of the two mercenaries also takes a course quite different from Sippy's Sholay.
Hema Malini's loud, extroverted tangewali Basanti in Sholay transforms in Ramu's Sholay into Ghungroo, to be played by Nisha Kothari , the only female auto-rickshaw driver in Mumbai who throws attitude but is actually all soft at heart. Deviating completely from Basanti's tonga and horse Dhanno, Ghungroo's auto (named Laila) is going to be a state-of-the-art creation.
Says a source, " Ghungroo's auto will be an art-director's nightmare. It would contain several hangings, a multi-speaker music system with synchronised disco lights, leopard print upholstery and a large image of Durga, all within the confines of the miniature auto."
Most interestingly, while the widow Radha and the outspoken and flamboyant Basanti never came together in Sippy's film (allegedly because Hema Malini didn't want to be seen anywhere near Sanjeev Kumar who played the widow's father-in-law, as Sanjeev had proposed unsuccessfully to Hema back then), Devi and Ghungroo are very close friends… Apart from these characters the two male protagonists Jai and Veeru are also being seriously revamped and modified to suit the requirements of Ramu's new-age Sholay.
Says Ramu, "I hadn't decided the personality and look of the girls so far. I feel Devi and Ghungroo are more today's women. There's no Radha or Basanti in my film. My two heroines Devi and Ghungroo, are best friends."
Ramesh Sippy would probably be hard put to recognise his Sholay in Ramu's film.
source:mumbaimirror
Ram Gopal Verma's Sholay is no more Sholay. It's something else altogether. According to extremely reliable sources, Ram Gopal Verma has entirely revamped, refurbished, and re-dressed almost all the immortal characters from Ramesh Sippy's epic.
In fact the relationships that bound the memorable characters in the 1975 epic have also been completely moved around to suit the dark contemporary underworld milieu where Ramu has situated his film.
The mute widow-in-white Radha played by Jaya Bachchan in the earlier kitsch-classic is now named Devi And she no longer wears white, but black. According to Ramu's Sholay she's no longer the Thakur's silently grieving daughter-in-law but the Inspector Ranveer (Mohanlal)'s brother's widow.
Ramu's Devi , a trained nurse, is far more aggressive in her desire for revenge than Radha could ever have been. Her relationship with one of the two mercenaries also takes a course quite different from Sippy's Sholay.
Hema Malini's loud, extroverted tangewali Basanti in Sholay transforms in Ramu's Sholay into Ghungroo, to be played by Nisha Kothari , the only female auto-rickshaw driver in Mumbai who throws attitude but is actually all soft at heart. Deviating completely from Basanti's tonga and horse Dhanno, Ghungroo's auto (named Laila) is going to be a state-of-the-art creation.
Says a source, " Ghungroo's auto will be an art-director's nightmare. It would contain several hangings, a multi-speaker music system with synchronised disco lights, leopard print upholstery and a large image of Durga, all within the confines of the miniature auto."
Most interestingly, while the widow Radha and the outspoken and flamboyant Basanti never came together in Sippy's film (allegedly because Hema Malini didn't want to be seen anywhere near Sanjeev Kumar who played the widow's father-in-law, as Sanjeev had proposed unsuccessfully to Hema back then), Devi and Ghungroo are very close friends… Apart from these characters the two male protagonists Jai and Veeru are also being seriously revamped and modified to suit the requirements of Ramu's new-age Sholay.
Says Ramu, "I hadn't decided the personality and look of the girls so far. I feel Devi and Ghungroo are more today's women. There's no Radha or Basanti in my film. My two heroines Devi and Ghungroo, are best friends."
Ramesh Sippy would probably be hard put to recognise his Sholay in Ramu's film.
source:mumbaimirror
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