On 7/13/2009 7:56 PM India Time, _akepatisrihas_ wrote: > --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "pravin_karnam" <pravinkar...@...> wrote: >> Any info on this? > > Rakesh Omprakash Mehra is not doing Guru Dutt > he is working on another film,romantic film which stars jr AB and > sonam kapoor >
This week's local newspaper has given a pic of Aamir with Kat saying that they are doing Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's remake of Guru Dutt's Kagaz Ke Phool (1959). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaagaz_Ke_Phool the film was critically aclaimed everywhere, but was utter flop on box office. However, it got re-released in France and Japan in 1984 and was a hit there. I had heard that Some agency in France has even archive the prints of this film whereas Gurudutt himself had to sell its print to a thelewala bangaar (scrap) wala when it flopped. -- Anyway. My personal judgment is that it is a bad decision to remake it. It might have been great by the standards of 1959, but 100s of greater, more complex films have been since then and now there would not be many takers for the simple plot of this film that people then had found very revealing by then standards. And then, the cast is worst possible. Aamir is an alpha male type of hero. he steals every frame in his film. Only in RDB did he contain himself and allowed other actors to have space. He is not likely to live up to Gurudutt's portrayal of silently sufferring guy. and Kat is a great face and great body but does she know what acting is, let alone knowing what Waheeda Rahman's level of acting is? her pronunciation in NewYork was irritating. Anyway. Depends on how they change the script to adapt it to current times. I wish they do give a great role to Waheeda Rahman in this remake. Would be a nice tribute to her being the heroine in the earlier film. -- As far as the music is concerned, only two songs survived from the original. the sweet, touching immemorable Waqt ne kiya kya haseen sitam by Geeta Dutt, and rafi's bichhade sabhi bari bari which I personally find too slow, boring, unimaginative. So, ARR wouldn't really have any high challenge presented to him beating SD Burman. :-) ARR's overall music would be hands down better than SDB's. The only challenge is Waqt Ne Kiya song, and if ARR does come up with a song better than that, that song is going to become lifelong most fav of every ARR fan. I wish they don't even try to compete with Waqt ne Kiya, and rather use the original song as such in the remake also, without even remixing. -- I think ARR is likely to be part of all Rakeysh films, but ARR will be in a fix. If ARR refuses to do this film, people will say he backed out fearing that he wouldn't be able to match SDB. :-) :-) :-) -- Rawat
