AB is so apt for the role, yeah i agree. if BHTB is massive lets do it and shoot it at the same pace as the making of BHTB
Kishore
--- In bigb@yahoogroups.com, Viral Mankad <viral_mankad@...> wrote:
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> Ok, if BHTB does well, I am totally down for a remake of TAKEN. Let's do it. Go AB!!!
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> Subject: [bigb] Amitabh's Bbuddah... was supposed to be a remake
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> Amitabh's Bbuddah... was
> supposed to be a remake
> Hiren
> Kotwani, Hindustan Times
> Mumbai, June 12, 2011
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> First Published: 14:27
> IST(12/6/2011)
> Last Updated: 14:55 IST(12/6/2011)
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> Considering his status, every director aspires to work with
> Amitabh Bachchan. It was no different for Puri Jagannath, who’s helming Bbuddah
> Hoga Terra Baap with the actor. Interestingly, the filmmaker, who started as an
> associate with Ram Gopal Varma, concedes that his initial plan was to remake a
> Hollywood movie with Bachchan.
> Puri reveals that he’d expressed his wish of working with the
> actor to RGV first. “I wanted to remake Taken (2008) starring Liam Neeson, with
> Amit ji. So I asked Ramu if he’d seen it. He hadn’t, but he suggested
> that I write something original instead,†says the director.
> After a week of brainstorming, Puri shared a concept with RGV,
> which he felt was apt for a film with Big B. “Ramu liked it and soon fixed up a meeting with Amit ji,†says Puri, summing up how
> he got the actor on board. Ask him why he was prompted to revisit the Angry
> Young Man image in his film, though Bachchan had started playing his age with
> Agneepath, and Puri reiterates, “Having grown up seeing Amit ji’s movies, I wanted to see him as a larger than life persona on screen again. After
> some time, no one was making those kinds of films with him. So he was not
> playing that kind of character and no one was writing those lines for him any
> more,†he reasons.
> Tell him that there’s been plenty of buzz about Big B doing
> action a la Salman Khan in Wanted (2009), a remake of Puri’s Telugu hit, Pokhiri
> (2006), and the director smiles, “It would be wrong to compare. But it would
> suffice to say that the character, his guts and the dialogue are the highlight
> of Bbuddah.â€
> Further, he maintains that only one line is borrowed from
> Bachchan’s previous films - ‘Hum jahaan khade ho jaate hain, line vahin se
> shuru ho jaati hai,’ (the line starts wherver I stand), which is in the
> promos currently on air. “Apart from this, all lines are new, but retain the
> essence of his earlier films,†says the director as he gears up for the film’s
> July 1 release.
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> http://www.hindustantimes.com/Amitabh-s-Bbuddah-was-supposed-to-be-a-remake/Article1-708547.aspx
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