RGV : I was foolish to attempt a remake of ‘Sholay’
RGV ki aag has turned out to be quite a dud at the box office.The critics and public alike have lashed out at RGV ki aag.
The box office has shown not even a luke warm response to Ram Gopal Verma’s remake of the cult classic Sholay, and the filmmaker is now saying he was foolish to have even attempted it.
When queried about how he had attempted a rather brave remake, the maverick director Ram Gopal Varma,unabashedly quipped,”Ive been rather foolish in the words of Ramesh Sippy.Thats correct.”
RGV admitted that last week after the release of the classic remake,’RGV Ki Aag’, he received many comments in the alst week than he had probably ever received.He face the media and the critics that disparaged him with a straight face since he had asked for it.
He concurs with Ramesh Sippy’s criticism of his remake. In RGV’s words,he was foolish to attempt a remake of the Sholay classic.If he had the confidence, the arrogance ,stupidity or the madness in Ramesh Sippy’s words to actually go and attempt an adaptation of a classic like Sholay, he had no choice other than facing the repurcussions.
He attributed his motivation to remake the film, RGV Ki Aag to his respect and love for the film.Despite the film’s abysmal faring at the box office, RGV believes that he understands the film better than anybody else but he also accepted that undertsanding a film doesn’t necessarily mean one can make a film as effectively as the original one.
RGV though does not sound resigned. He does not dismiss the possibility of him attempting a remake of a classic in future. He affirms that RGV Ki Aag’s fate has a lot more to it than the remake.HE believes that film was mired in issues like a court case with refernce to the name change, character change.He prefers though to introspect in terms of his motivation to remake Sholay - to delve into whether Sholay remains in his mind in the form of moments or reminiscences of the dialogues or whether he emotionally relished it but RGV’s probe as he claims remains unresolved.