dude I cld care less what you get into, my post was referring to the argument that ramu had somehow lost it long ago. my point simply being that you just need to look at his last 3 yrs of wrk to realize that the argument is completely absurd

http://indiafm.com/news/2006/10/17/8053/index.html

Himesh-Asha out, Ganesh-Sunidhi in for RGV's Sholay
By IndiaFM News Bureau, October 17, 2006 - 10:16 IST

Some more casting has been put to place for Ram Gopal Varma’s Sholay. Choreographer turned singer Ganesh Hedge will compose and choreograph the song Mehbooba Mehbooba for the film. Earlier Himesh was to compose the same track and like his numerous music video appearances, was also set to make an appearance in the item song playing the role of Jalal Agha.

However things seem to have changed now with RGV roping in Ganesh Hegde. Varma wanted Himesh to do the film but the music director is quite busy with his international shows. Meanwhile Ganesh Hegde composed his version of the song adding old elements and incorporating new portions to it too, which Varma liked. Ganesh and RGV are now planning to shoot the song in five to six different parts of the world. Ganesh Hegde had earlier choreographed songs like Khallas and Kambakth Ishq for Ramu.

Meanwhile, Asha Bhosle, who was originally supposed to sing the song, has been replaced by Sunidhi Chauhan now. Interestingly both the singers were unaware about the other’s involvement with the song. Sukhwinder Singh is Sunidhi’s male counterpart.

Your post contained a quotation of something I wrote, and thus I wished to address it. The claim — as I construed it — was that Ram Gopal Varma's films were sloping downward in quality, and not only do I find it "not absurd," I support it.

Trying to veer away from Varma, and toward the topic of his re-make of Sholay (i.e., if the two can somehow be somewhat dissociated for a moment), I find it interested that, in most of the interviews I've read, he again and again mentions that with critiques panning Shiva, they'll have nothing but praise for "Ram Gopal Varma Ki Sholay." Has he just completely thrown his hands into the air about Shiva? Also, I wonder what he'll eventually call his "Sholay"...

ramu/amit interview, more from the sholay press conference on ytube… vid

this guy sounds like a complete idiot, he got the look for gabbar while watching 'animal planet'







Gabbar ki gufa

By: Shradha Sukumaran
October 29, 2006

Rajeev Chudasama had only seen odd-coloured eyes in one other person before he decided to fix Amitabh Bachchan’s eyes with a pair of contact lenses, one grey, the other brown.

“My mom runs a kindergarten school and there was a three-year-old girl there with one green eye, the other grey,” describes the character and environmental designer of Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay, “When she looked at me, it was as if I was staring into the eyes of the snake in Jungle Book — she could hypnotise people with those eyes.

But I’ve seen it quite often in cats.” Rajeev figured that if the new age Gabbar wasn’t living in a valley and screaming to be heard, he’d do most of his talking through his eyes. “And if you had two different eyes staring at you, which one would you focus on or trust?” he asks.

The publicity designer says that like the eyes, most of his decisions on the coveted project have been rooted in unflappable logic.

So where would the biggest villain Hindi cinema has ever known live? With director Ram Gopal Varma determined to set his Sholay in the heart of the city, Rajeev thought up a dilapidated mansion covered with moss.

“I could shut my eyes and see its form, even the kind of moss, the sleeper wood on the floor. I looked at this project like an audience would — I thought of his films and eliminated or added what I thought suited Mr Bachchan.”


Late-night, long jamming sessions with Varma helped. Rajeev’s Marching Ants had worked extensively on publicity for Varma’s films, but the step to be so creatively involved with his Sholay came because the film-maker was convinced that Rajeev was as excited by the idea of the film as he was.

“The day he knew that I was on the same plane, I stepped in,” says Rajeev. He worked with the director’s vision three months ago, while the two sat, throwing up interesting ideas on Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay at his office over three days.

Busy shooting the film now, Varma comments, “Rajeev deserves complete credit for the look. He’s the best person to explain even my brief on the characters!”

“I realised that with RGV, I had to think of his shot-taking, his tight close-ups. I could have designed the best outfits, but Gabbar’s face had to matter more,” explains Rajeev.

After discussions, emerged a scarred, scruffy, unpredictable Gabbar in dirty green flannels and worn-out boots. “I’ve gone by common sense — this villain isn’t a metrosexual.

He’s always on the move, an outdoors guy so he had to look dirty, not like he just came out of aromatherapy. He also doesn’t have a place of his own — they’re all temporary hideouts, a tunnel, cave, old bungalow or a warehouse.”

So Rajeev fashioned a discarded bungalow (off Yari road, where paparazzi caught snapshots of Varma shooting last week) with 700 kilos of moss hauled all the way from Manipur for the walls, one hanging tube light and the thick, uneven sleeper wood for the floors. “I wanted it because they have so many gaps — it has this scary texture, almost hilly. Now in his den, Gabbar reminds you of Phantom. The absence of a woman is noticeable,” laughs the designer.


Gabbar’s den also had mismatched chairs thrown together and a single, worn-out sofa armchair that complements his size. But even if Gabbar didn’t care for many things, Rajeev did allow him one eccentricity. “He’s fond of mirrors, but the mercury’s completely gone. They’re four-five huge old mirrors gone hazy. You can only partly see your reflection, but he likes it that way. It doesn’t even serve its purpose. If I had entered the house and saw five mirrors like that, I’d think, ‘Is he all right?’”

Which is why they also thought of doing away with a plasma TV in the house and have Gabbar perhaps playing (cat-like?) with string. “If you had a TV, you’d have to have him watching cartoons. He doesn’t even have a phone; his people help him stay in touch with the world. Gabbar is bored — he’s actually waiting for a new challenge,” he says


Which is why the idea of cat-coloured, odd eyes for Gabbar came about.

Besides, cats are unpredictable and they sometimes kill for joy, not food. Rajeev says Gabbar grew in his mind from years of observing people and taking mental notes, while hours of gazing at Animal Planet paid off with the cat eyes (his favourite touch).

But Rajeev admits to being nervous about getting Bachchan to put on the coloured contacts.

“I had my fingers and toes crossed — I hoped he’d buy it! But there was no convincing required.” Ditto for the thin scar on the nose that spoke of Gabbar’s violence. “It shows that this guy can get physical…that he isn’t a Bol Bachchan!’ he laughs.

In fact, Bachchan did seem a little “grumpy” when he came in for the trials for the Gabbar get-up, but he soon treated it like a brilliant exercise.
The team decided on green flannel, multi-function pants with pockets, sturdy boots that had their own disheveled style, a flat intricate earring for a touch of fashion and a staff with a scorpion head that conceals one deadly Gabbar weapon — a razor-sharp sword.

Bachchan only requested for lighter pants (“I’ll die in the heat. Yeh patloon thoda patla ho sakta hai?”) and said, while looking in the mirror, “Ramu (Ram Gopal Varma), this is a good-looking Gabbar!”


While a jeep would have been the ‘macho’ choice for Gabbar to move around, Rajeev wanted to add an edge. He found it in the humongous Hummer.

“It had to compliment his largeness and be intimidating; create an impact. We thought of trucks, but a Hummer is such a monster!” exclaims Rajeev. It substituted for the old Gabbar’s actual horsepower and sent out a daunting statement.


— Rajeev Chudasama

Latest is Sissy Jeetendra playing Thakur!



http://indiafm.com/news/2006/10/30/8113/index.html

Jeetendra will play thakur in Sholay remake
By IndiaFM News Bureau, October 30, 2006 - 09:31 IST

Ekta Kapoor recently announced her next production Gabbar Singh – the Bhojpuri remake of all time blockbuster Sholay. Now Ekta’s father Jeetendra will be making his debut in a Bhojpuri film by starring in Gabbar Singh. And which is the role that he would be playing? No, it’s not Gabbar but that of Thakur. The idea of having Jeetendra as Thakur came from the director of the film Mahesh Pandey. Pandey wanted a senior actor to play that role and since Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha have already starred in Bhojpuri Films, he thought that Jeetendra was a better option.

When Pandey informed Ekta about his idea, she was charged about it and agreed to convince her father to play the role. The film will be a different version of Sholay altogether. It will be a film from the perspective of Gabbar Singh and about his life.

However, Pandey says that his film will retain all the important characters like Jai, Veeru, Basanti and Radha. The rest of the cast is yet to be finalized but the film will go on floors early next year.

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you got the wrong sholay arsh dude

my apology, molaji!! aakhir kitna naye sholay banega?? my ignorance

"Tumhara naam kya hae basanti?"

"Ghungroo"

"Pehli baar suna hae yeh naam."

Yes, Ramu's Basanti will be called Ghungroo and played by Nisha Kothari.

What-s the status of Ramu-s SHOLAY in light of Sippy Films filing a pettition against SHOLAY remake ??

I share the sentiments!! They are not meant to be ridiculed for the greed of wankas like RGV, DUTTA and FARHAN KHAN for quick bucks sake! Please leave classics alone!

Do not even try to remake CASA BLANCA with SAROOK,and TRAISH

It is DISGRACE to MEENA KUMARI to be portrayed by these inferior actresses of today!

I am glad Mani Sir is keeping his inspiration to South East Asia , Mexico, and Hollywood! to his discredit!

nisha as basanti is a great move imo, who doesn’t luv nisha … I just wish ramu wld change his veeru. and it seems all these name changes are due to the lawsuit…





Copy, right?

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

Subhash K Jha

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

hema is just mad b/c ramu didn't cast esha in the film

lol thank Lord it is not GULABO! YA YA YA

RGV's Gabbar to Sambha -- "Kitney aadmi thae? Option A - 3, Option B - 4, Option C - 2" :lol: