Ramu’s ‘Sholay’ remake fails to ignite the ‘Aag’ with the audience.
Ramu is often referred to as a maverick when it comes to filmmaking in Bollywood but, after watching his adaptation of ‘Sholay’ our opinion has changed. Well, we are not calling him brilliant but, outright crazy to make a mess of the classic.
‘Sholay’ was a cult film of the 1970’s in which Ramesh Sippy had sketched out each character so well that even after 32 years we remember the dialogues. Ramu has been way off with his remake attempt of the classic.
The casting is a major drawback; you can’t cast someone as serious as Ajay Devgan to play the role of Veeru and it goes without saying it was a big blunder. Basanti was one character that we loved despite she chewing our brains with her constant ‘blah blah’; a incompetent actress like Nisha Kothari definitely could not handle it this time; forget charming she actually turned out to be quite exasperating.
Debutante Prashant Raj is average but, Sushmita Sen as Durga is great; she has delivered a powerful performance. Big B has done complete justice to his character of Babban. Although a negative role, we loved Amjad Khan AKA Gabbar in ‘Sholay’ and we can quite say the same about Big B as well.
Mohanlal is awesome and Sushant Singh as Tambe AKA Samba has done a great job. Ramu has recently claimed in his interview that his movie is inspired by ‘Sholay’ but, is not a remake; Guess, the director himself realized what a big blunder he did by attempting ‘Sholay’.
Well, now it’s too late Ramu as the damage is already done.
Audiences have given a thumbs down to the movie. ‘Ram Gopal Verma Ki Aag’ as a movie is not awful but, what the problem here is that it fails to live up to ‘Sholay’.