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By Kamlesh Tripathi
By Kamlesh Tripathi
Bollywood
between diamond and Platinum jubilee
Remake: epic
serial ‘Mahabharat’ starring superstars
‘Bollywood’ is
the sobriquet for the Hindi film industry based out of Mumbai. The term is also
loosely used as a synecdoche to refer to the whole of Indian cinema. It has
made millions and trillions through cinema and has a huge Indian following and
the same has now even rippled abroad. It has been in existence for more than eighty
five years now. Raja Harishchandra was the first silent feature film made by
Dadasaheb Phalke in 1913. By 1930s, the Indian Film Industry was producing over
200 films per annum. And ever since then it has never looked back. It is one of
the largest film producers in India, representing 43% of net box office revenue,
while Telugu and Tamil cinema represent 36% and the rest of the regional cinema
constitutes 21% as of 2015. It is also one of the largest centers for film
production in the world and it is formally referred to as ‘Hindi cinema’ and is
one of the biggest movie industries in the world in terms of the number of
people employed and the number of films produced in 2011, over 3.5 billion
tickets were sold across the globe which in comparison is 900,000 tickets more
than Hollywood.
Hitherto
Bollywood has functioned quite enviously under different banners for more than
eighty five years and has given us some wonderful movies. But it is about time
it now comes under one united banner to give India the entertainment of a
lifetime—the real dhamaka of the century.
Bollywood missed the lifetime
occasion of a diamond jubilee celebration and platinum is still far away, but by
then many superstars of today may hang their boots. So now is the right time to
produce a mega serial where all the diggajes of Bollywood can come
together and act, and for the sake of Bollywood’s commemoration they should act
free. And if we delay it further we may miss out on many such great actors
coming together as they may call it a day. The idea is to make them act
together in a mega project which may not be possible in a three hour movie. I
would therefore suggest a remake of the great epic ‘Mahabharat’ which is still
the most popular serial ever made in Indian history.
Imagine how would you
feel watching Mahabharat scripted by the all time famous duo of Saleem-Javed as
was done in Sholay, music by A.R Rehman, songs by Lata Mangeshkar, Asha
Bhonsale, Anuradha Podwal, Anup Jalota and Bhupendra (unfortunately Kishore and
Mukesh are no more) and my caste to name a few would be: Amitabh Bachchan as
Bheeshma Pitamah, Nana Patekar as Dronacharya, Anupam Kher as Mahatma Vidur,
Ajay Devgun as Krishna, Amir Khan as Karan, Shahrukh Khan as Yudhistir, Salman
Khan as Bheem, Kritik Roshan as Arjun, Ranbir Kapur as Nakul, Abhishek Bachchan
as Sahdev, Javed Jafri as Shakuni, Danny as Dhritrasth (ideal would have been
Amrish Puri but sad he is no more), Jaya Bachan as Gandhari, Shabana as Kunti,
Priyanka Chopra as Draupadi.
These are only few
names and characters with my limited knowledge and once you start detailing it
many more icons will surface to take on many more challenging characters of
Mahabharat.
But will this ever
happen? Well nothing is impossible and the way we like watching Mughle-Azam
even after half a century and Sholay even now, this serial if ever produced shall be watched for time immemorial.
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