Bejoy Nambiar, who had directed Amitabh Bachchan - Farhan Akhtar starrer Wazir, was gearing up for his next project with Dhanush and Harshavardhan Rane as the leads. The film, which was supposed to go on floors this August, has been put on hold. The untitled project is a remake of Mani Ratnam's Tamil action drama, Agni Natchathiram, which presents a story of two stepbrothers at loggerheads over who's the rightful heir to their father. A source associated with the project informed that the look they had planned for Dhanush didn't work out as planned and his dates were clashing with previous commitments down South. The film has been put on the hold until the issues are resolved. As per the work is concerned, Bejoy Nambiar has now moved on from this project and will be concentrating on his Malayalam-Tamil bilingual. He is busy signing the cast and the film...
- 8/24/2016
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Mani Ratnam's 1988 melodrama Tamil melodrama Agni Natchathiram is now being remade into Hindi by one of his most ardent disciples Bejoy Nambiar. Nambiar has been closely associated with Mani Ratnam and has assisted him on several of his films. When Bejoy made his directorial debut with Shaitaan, Mani Ratnam went out of his way to support his protege. It therefore comes as no surprise to know that Bejoy will now remake a Mani Ratnam film. However the fact that Agni Natchathiram has already been re-made into Hindi does make Bejoy's aspirations somewhat redundant. Mani's film was remade in 1992 as Vansh with Siddharth Ray and Sudesh Berry cast as two warring step brothers. The film directed by action director Pappu Varma was a stunted stilted stiff and vapid remake of Mani's film. It bombed. Bejoy's film will star Harshvardhan Rane and Vicky Kaushal as the step brothers. When I asked...
- 5/13/2016
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
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