Old friendship can never turn sour.For months at stretch there were speculations about Urmila Matondkar’s presence in ‘Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag’. Though it was announced quite early on that she would be doing a jig on Helen’s timeless track ‘Mehbooba’ from ‘Sholay’, one waited to see how it would eventually unfold in it’s [...]

The maverick filmmaker says his movie Ram Gopal Varma Ki Sholay will be very different from the original Sholay made in 1975.
Thirty-two years after the release of Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay , Ram Gopal Varma is giving his own interpretation to the film that is regarded as the Bible of Hindi cinema. And true to [...]

This one may come a surprise.

Ram Gopal Varma’s version of Ramesh Sippy’s 1975 classic Sholay is no longer called Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay. It has been changed to Ram Gopal Varma Ke Aag.

Apparently, the negotiations with the original title-holders of the film — the Sippys — have failed and now, Ramu has renamed [...]