Dev Anand to revive classics

By Taran Adarsh, January 25th, 2005 - 0930 hrs IST


The success of MUGHAL-E-AZAM paved the way for grand revivals of classics. While Ravi Chopra is in the process of reviving classics produced by B.R. Films, starting with NAYA DAUR, Dev Anand has also decided to revive four films from Navketan's rich repertoire in the forthcoming months.

“We've decided to revive four films,” Dev-saab informs me, “While three of these have been shot in color [GUIDE, HARE RAMA HARE KRISHNA, DES PARDES], the fourth [HUM DONO], originally a B & W film, will be revived in color after the colorisation process.” Also, the films will be released with Dolby sound, which means the background score of these films will be recorded freshly, all over again.

Who else joins me in condemning this atrocious act of "colorizing" B&W films in name of reviving classics!. This is a deeply disturbing trend and it seems to be getting popular in Hollywood and Bollywood (maybe elsewhere also ). I wish our "artist" ( one again I put my head down in calling them that !) and "management" would spend the money on getting better prints to audience. They dare not touch PYAASA - a film that is near and dear to me ( along with millions of fans worldwide).


Wood Allen is spot on when he says
"colorizing films is a `monstrous,' disgusting,' horrible,' `sinful,' `absurd,' `humiliating,' `preposterous,' and `insulting' mutilation and defacing of genuine works of art, in which computers are used to `doctor' and `tamper' with the `great originals,' thereby creating `degraded,' `cheesy,' artificial symbols of one society's greed."


I am not a fan of remixing sound either – My philosophy is don’t touch the music especially when the original composer is not around any more !


SHAME ON YOU BOLLYWOOD …, SHAME ON YOU !

Amen! yaar!!
Shame!! on every one!! who try to milk out of these atrocious acts! of remixing quality music into disaster with semi nude babes rocking rolling on those tunes!!

It is biggest LAANAT(CURSE) ON name of music!
Same for films!!

Budha, khosad Dev chala krore pati banane!! jab ek bhi film na chali!!

It is sinful, if you ask me!!to color Pyasa, or Madhumati etc!

Why did not Devanand got involved to get GOOD QUALITY dvds of his classics, like GUIDE, HARRE RAMA ETC!! They are shameful dvd transfers!!in the first place.

Sorry guys ..., it looks like i am treading on similar subject ( Mughal-e-Azam -http://zulm.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6599) , never paid much attention to the other thread .

Mods feel free to close the thread .

Nothing wrong with reviving old classics as long as they don't ruin them.

In Dev's case, all but one film is in Color to begin with and reviving means just putting some effort to release them in a better than "uncared" old prints.

Music was already written, and no harm in re-recording it using modern higher quality sound recording studios/ techniques. Example: MEA audio.

But, I'm totally against coloring of B/W films
and
Making Widescreen prints by cutting top and bottom of the screen

rana yaar, are u ok?

Sure.

In the old days, before home video, there always were old films making rounds in theatres and doing well. With the advent of home video, theatrical screening of old films has almost completely stopped. Videos available today are all crap even by video standards. And, even the best of the best home video is inferior to theatrical projections.

I sure would like to see old films with new prints from their original negatives. And I want to see them without chopping top and bottom of the picture to make them fit on wide screens, common today.

yaar i was referring to some typos! so you can edit them.



I hope you did not mind before some one's chronic anger gets you!

they better not touch Pyaasa, Awara, Madhumati ... especially not Pyaasa