Aishagul
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Post by Aishagul on Mar 17, 2014 13:27:11 GMT
The old forum had a similar thread in which we discussed Hollywood movies which could be successfully adapted into Bollywood. There were some fantastic ideas which I miss reading through.. Can we start it again please.. This time, perhaps movies from around the world, not just Hollywood, could be included. I would like to start with a Hollywood movie; Overboard (1987). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overboard_(film)It's a romantic comedy in which "a cruel but beautiful heiress screws over a hired carpenter, who later is the first one to find her when she gets amnesia. Looking for a little revenge he convinces her that she's his wife." (IMDB description) I think the story has great potential if adapted into Bollywood. The charming interaction between two leads in the Hollywood version could be well matched by Bollywood's favourite filmi jodis..
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Post by rt on Mar 17, 2014 16:18:25 GMT
This movie was remade as a Salman Khan-Neelam starrer Ek Ladka Ek Ladki in 90s. I don't think it was successful.
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Post by rt on Mar 17, 2014 16:19:42 GMT
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Post by odadune on Mar 17, 2014 17:37:47 GMT
Oh, man, I loved that thread. Two of my favorite ideas from there were Bollywood versions of Scarlet Pimpernel and Beauty and the Beast. I wouldn't mind seeing versions of Mansfield Park, Persuasion, or Northanger Abbey as well-Northanger Abbey kind of calls out for a Twilight riff (since apparently the female readers of India are all gaga over that one) and someone like Tapsee Pannu or Kajal Aggarwal as the female lead.
More recently, I've decided I want a version of the old Gary Cooper/Audrey Hepburn/Maurice Chevalier vehicle "Love In The Afternoon", starring Hrithik Roshan and Sonam Kapoor in the lead roles, and directed by Prabhudheva, who did a Tamil-language version that was actually pretty okay aside from having rather boring, one-dimensional lead actors. Also think it would be funny to see a high meta version of My Fair Lady where Salman is trying to teach Hindi to either an English-speaking NRI (Katrina) or a Punjabi village belle (Sonakshi) with the help of his sassy sister (Chitrangda) and his goofy ex-military buddy (Akshay) who helps babysit the heroine so to speak while romancing the sister. Bonus points if they cast Sona as the Eliza Doolittle analogue and her dad as Mr. Doolittle.
I wouldn't mind an urbanized crime-thriller version of the western 3:10 to Yuma, where an honest man has to resist all temptations and all odds in order to deliver a likable outlaw to the train that will take him back to prison. Great "bromance" potential.
I'm also plugging my way through the "planetary romance" Irandaam Ulagam with Arya and Anushka; it apparently flopped (or at least cost way more to make than it earned back), so nobody's like to remake it anytime soon, but it's the only South Indian film I could see Sanjay Leela Bhansali directing a remake of instead of just producing. Weird production values, beautiful people with twisted yet grandiose ideas of what love entails, a plot that makes no sense when you examine it logically...very much his kind of thing.
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Aishagul
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Post by Aishagul on Mar 17, 2014 21:46:48 GMT
This movie was remade as a Salman Khan-Neelam starrer Ek Ladka Ek Ladki in 90s. I don't think it was successful. Wow, that's news to me! Thank you for the link, rt. It looks like a loose adaptation; and having read the plot I understand why it did not do good business.. I still believe, in the hands of a good director and a scriptwriter, the story of Overboard movie could be turned into a perfect Bollywood movie.. odadune, a Bollywood adaptation of Persuasion gets my vote as well!
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Post by rose on Mar 18, 2014 4:45:57 GMT
I want a Bollywood Bewitched! The original series, not the movie. Staring...
Tamannaah as Samantha Ranveer Singh as Daren Rekha as Endora
I just see them fitting perfectly into the roles. The plot... I'm fuzzy on the plot. It is hard to take a sitcom to film format. Maybe something to do with Samantha's evil cousin? I just wouldn't want them to break-up Samantha and Daren at any point.
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Post by Xas on Mar 18, 2014 5:59:10 GMT
^ I think Rekha would make a v.g. Endora, since both women are/were scary. They scare me, at least. One of my all-time favourite films to come out of the 80s was Jumpin' Jack Flash, starring Whoopi Goldberg. It's a comedy/light drama about a bank worker who gets caught up in a spy ring via her work computer. BW bonus is that it already has Angrezi bad guys in it. Not sure who would play Whoopi's role, since it requires some snappy comic smarts, and some OTT/slapstick moments. Rani, maybe? Her love interest is mostly just a voice in the ether until the final ten minutes or so, so I'd pick Ajay for that role, because I think he has a lovely voice, and it would mean I didn't have to look at him. There is also a work colleague of Whoopi/Rani's who would need casting. He's a sort of nice guy/friend-zone/knight errant. Ali Zafar? There are quite a few bit players - goodies, baddies and neutrals - which could pretty much be played by anyone. Boman Irani or Paresh Rawal might work as Whoopi's boss, though.
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Post by dancelover on Mar 18, 2014 18:19:06 GMT
Rekka would be Endora indeed! Ranveer is too strong for Darin, IMHO. D I want a Bollywood Bewitched! The original series, not the movie. Staring... Tamannaah as Samantha Ranveer Singh as Daren Rekha as Endora I just see them fitting perfectly into the roles. The plot... I'm fuzzy on the plot. It is hard to take a sitcom to film format. Maybe something to do with Samantha's evil cousin? I just wouldn't want them to break-up Samantha and Daren at any point.
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Post by odadune on Mar 19, 2014 0:35:23 GMT
Xas, I've never seen Jumpin' jack Flash, but your version sounds like it would be fun. And yes, Ajay has an awesome voice. Re: Bewitched, there was a really boring Hollywood film remake a couple years ago, I don't remember much about it except that it had a nice vaguely retro visual style w/o actually being set in the 60s/70s. Think it was about Darren and Samantha first falling in love, which would be a very Bollywoodish angle. I like the idea of Tamannaah and Rekha in those roles, but I'm with dancelover on Ranveer-too wild and forceful a personality for Darren. I always found the character likable but a bit "square" and very much the beta male even if he doesn't necessarily realize it himself. kind of a John Abraham character, I guess, or maybe a Siddharth Malhotra or Imran Khan, if you wanted someone who'd match Tamannaah a bit better in age.
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Post by rose on Mar 19, 2014 2:43:52 GMT
I like Ranveer for it because I see him being able to pull off Darrin's "fits" he had very frayed nerves in the show. But yeah, he would defiantly have to turn his current persona way, way down.
I haven't seen Siddharth Malhotra in anything, but I actually like him for the role. He looks it.
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Post by newauntie on Mar 25, 2014 14:05:07 GMT
I loved this thread, thank you Aishagul for resurrecting this one! Woody Allen's "Purple Rose of Cairo" would make a perfect BW adaptation, I don't know why no one has done it yet. (SPOILER ALERT!!!) Set in Depression-era New Jersey, a lonely housewife finds her only solace in the movies, when her life is turned upside down when one of the characters walks off the screen for her. The movie is so warm, yet bittersweet, and it's a perfect blend of life and melodrama... Come to think of it, quite a few of Woody's movies would make pretty good BW movies - especially his late 1980s movies like "Crimes and Misdemeanors" and "Alice".
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Post by ranranbolly on Mar 27, 2014 16:47:10 GMT
I want a Bollywood Bewitched! The original series, not the movie. Staring... Tamannaah as Samantha Ranveer Singh as Daren Rekha as Endora I just see them fitting perfectly into the roles. The plot... I'm fuzzy on the plot. It is hard to take a sitcom to film format. Maybe something to do with Samantha's evil cousin? I just wouldn't want them to break-up Samantha and Daren at any point. While we're on that subject. I'd love to see a Bollywood "I Dream of Jeanie ". Ideally a younger Sridevi would have been perfect, but I think Deepika Padukone has the adorable chops to make it work. Maybe Vivek Oberoi as Tony. Another one I'd like to see, is maybe an adaptation of "Bogus". Also, "Arsenic and Old Lace". Perhaps with Shahid Kapoor or Abhishek Bachchan as Mortimer.
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Post by dancelover on Mar 27, 2014 17:29:35 GMT
Please remember, Jeanie was *not* a kid, she was just played by one because nobody in HW knew better way back then. Sridevi is now the right age for the role! Snakedance! Snakedance! Dancelover While we're on that subject. I'd love to see a Bollywood "I Dream of Jeanie ". Ideally a younger Sridevi would have been perfect, but I think Deepika Padukone has the adorable chops to make it work. Maybe Vivek Oberoi as Tony. [snip - d] ranranbolly
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Post by odadune on Mar 27, 2014 18:11:15 GMT
I don't think Ranranbolly was proposing "child star" Sridevi so much as "Sridevi in her heyday"-and Barbara Eden was 36 or so when the show started; not a "kid" by any means. I think there's people in Bollywood who'd get a kick out of Jeannie-there were a TON of 1001 Arabian Nights type movies back in the day. Trouble is, there are very few high-ranking actresses who can both dance and have comic timing in Bollywood right now, just Rani and maybe Priyanka. Deepika's okay on the latter but weak on the former IMO (and although very attractive totally not my idea of "cute" or "adorable" but maybe Chennai Express/Ram Leela will change my mind), and also someone who probably wouldn't carry off the clothes.
Haven't seen Bogus, but the premise is interesting. Nominating Akki for the imaginary magician friend, mostly because he actually does do card tricks and stuff in private life. Arsenic and Old Lace...Abhi or Shahid or maybe Riteish would be hysterical as Mortimer Brewster-the girlfriend could be just about anyone, the crazy relatives are the fun roles to cast. I'm thinking maybe Boman Irani or Anupam Kher as the Cousin Teddy analogue. The two little old ladies...well, Hema and Jaya used to have pretty decent comic timing back in the day, be nice to see them give it a try. If you wanted someone slightly younger, maybe Dimple and Rekha. The psycho is tougher-back in the day it would have been an Amrish Puri role, hands down. Today, I dunno-maybe Emraan Hashmi, if his creepy-looking persona in Mr. X makes a big splash? Or one of the 80s/90s villains, like Danny Denzongpa or Gulshan Grover, both of whom come with bonus stage training IIRC. For the Peter Lorre role, I think I want Akash Deshpande-he was very funny as the weaselly politician's son in Boss.
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Post by Xas on Mar 27, 2014 22:31:25 GMT
I don't know why I didn't think of Arsenic and Old Lace, since it's one of my favourite movies. I could see Abhi as Mortimer. I'd probably pitch for Riteish for the Peter Lorre role, I think. Maybe Arjun Rampal as Johnny, since he does look a little bit psychotic anyway, and he never smiles. The thought of Anupam blowing a bugle and hurtling up the stairs is already making me laugh. As odadune says, Mrs Brewster could be played by anyone, ditto the two police officers. The aunties could be tricky though. The whole point of them is that they're supposed to come across as sweet innocent little old ladies {Click to view!}which is where it would kinda fall down with Rekha, since she actually does look like someone who would murder complete strangers and bury them in her basement.
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