According to Mid Day...

AB plays don again

Come September, or around that month next year, Amitabh Bachchan will be seen ‘donning’ a similar role for two films, Rajkumar Santoshi’s Family and Ram Gopal Varma’s Sarkar.

Both movies were rumoured to be remakes of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather — assertions denied by the respective filmmakers.

While not much is known about the films at present, what’s clear is that in both, Bachchan plays the patriarch of a large Mafiosi-like enterprise.

In Ram Gopal Varma’s Sarkar

He is: A powerful political law-into-himself, a non-constitutional patriarch whose writ runs virtually in the entire city of Mumbai.

A character rumoured to be based on Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray

The look: Red ‘tikka’ on the forehead, gold-rimmed spectacles, black kurta, well-trimmed goatee and relatively unkempt salt-n-pepper hair

Will enter cinemas: August-September 2005

[ We had told you earlier this year that Ram Gopal Varma would return to shoot for ´Sarkar´ in October , after shooting for a couple of days "Just to test waters" . The situation remains the same .

It now seems that the shooting of ´Sarkar´ will restart next year and with Amitabh and Abhishek already being overcommitted , one has to wait and watch when the shooting of ´Sarkar´ actually commences ]


Family has already completed 2 schedules & looks like it will be out first. not sure why AB is doing similar roles esp since he is producing Family.

maybe we are seeing history repeating itself... who can ever forget TOOFAN & JAADUGAR

according to bv the shoot is in progress?

'According to sources, Ramu is shooting his Amitabh-Abhishek Bachchan starrer 'Sarkar' at breakneck speed. The film is likely to release around August 18th of this year.'

Sarkar

Director: Ram Gopal Varma

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Kay Kay Menon, Supriya Pathak, Rukhsar, Katrina Kaif, Tanisha Mukherjee, Virendra Saxena and Carran Kapur.

Promo download;

http://www.indiafm.com/feature/05/mar/1 ... deo1150.rm

more here

http://www.indiafm.com/feature/05/mar/1 ... ndex.shtml

Ali

thanks for the link ali

promo looks incredible..

absolutely can’t wait to see this

only 118 days, 3 hrs and 5 mins left - let the countdown begin

‘sarkar’ trailor 2… brilliant!

http://www.indiatarget.com/movies/movie_trailors/sarkar1.rm