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29 Aug

‘Gabbar was not a negative character’

He has got those intense eyes that help him define beyond a filmmaker. Ram Gopal Varma is not just a director who makes films for the sake of box-office success. For him a film is an idea that depicts the ‘frame of mind’ of a creative artist (filmmaker) at a given time.
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29 Aug

It’s official: Pritish Nandy ki Sholay

The badlands of Ramgarh will boom again with Gabbar Singh’s loud talk and Basanti’s non-stop chatters. Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC) has bagged a $100-million franchisee deal to remake the 70s masterpiece Sholay, which ran in movie theatres for five-and-a-half years without interruption, making it the most successful film in India’s cinematic history.
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29 Aug

Sushmita Sen identifies with her character in ‘Sholay’ remake

Sushmita Sen says she found shades of herself in a new character she plays in Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag – the much touted remake of the cult classic Sholay .
Sushmita says her character, Durga Devi, is a more vocal, modern woman than Radha, the character veteran actress Jaya Bachchan made famous in the [...]

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