There is no un-remake-able movie. I mean yes, some classics are awe-inspiring; being too good to be true, let alone the history of you with them. But again and again, there are capable artists who can remake even the most memorable movies as super ones. The makers of (Ram Gopal Varma's Indian Flames) don't belong to this bunch of artists AT ALL. They don't even come near them within 1000 miles!
This is a remake of one of the greatest Indian blockbusters ever (Sholay - 1975) which was itself a remake of (Seven Samurai - 1954), yet a super remake. So, when you intent to remake, you have 2 choices: 1) Do something better. Or 2) Do something, at least, as good. Clearly, it didn't do both. This movie impudently copied the honored, learned by heart, original the way any parrot would do. It's really a classic when it comes to embody the detestable shot-by-shot transcribing, the low filmmaking, and the stark-naked bankruptcy of some artists sometimes!
Let's review the disaster; they thought that by casting (Amitabh Bachchan), one of the original's leads, as the evil man that they got a movie. They were wrong. So wrong. Because nothing was interesting enough, even seeing (Bachchan) himself! The character of (Babban) wasn't something special. Yes, (Bachchan) put some of the Amith magic to it, with attempts to give it a bit of originality. But it's still idiot; yawning like a cat meaninglessly, talking in what sounds like great wisdom while all of his lines are so naive, eating in a restaurant while he's one of the most wanted and already a fugitive (!!), etc. Speaking about originality, (Bachchan) was wearing the same outfit that he wore in (Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home) 3 years earlier (??). They gave him more screen time, cared about his own scenes, but nothing made him surpass (Gabbar Singh), played by (Amjad Khan), which was maybe the prototype of the violent evil man in the Indian cinema since the mid-1970s, and nothing end my feeling about this movie as one of (Bachchan)'s smirches, else (Abhishek Bachchan)!
So what's more laughable? (Prashant Raj)'s haircut as so 70s? The performance of the actor who played the blind father? (Mohan Lal) who is too fat, and too frigid, to be that wounded policeman? Or (Abhishek Bachchan)'s cameo, presence, and his dubbed voice saying (Mahbobba, ahh, Mahbobba)?!! No. It's the difference between the word (Sholay) and (Aag) since both of them mean Fire! There are plenty of laughable scenes where you must laugh at the movie, not with it; some foes hold machine guns, then the 2 leads attack them, with their bare hands, and win (??), at the end, the survivor lead hits nearly 5 foes, bigger than him and have machine guns, alone by just a short iron pipe! Well, some people are just lucky; and I'm talking about the ones who didn't have to see this!
Watching the same comic scenes of the original repeating so lifelessly was pathetic; how to forget that hearing the same joke twice is a turn-off?! So how about hearing them by weak actors as well?! This is what bad déjà vu stands for. It makes you ask; why didn't they CREATE something for their own in these situations? Simply why didn't they write a new movie for their own in the first place?! However, they did things of their own indeed...
Firstly, they removed the song about the colors' festival to the inspector's flash back. How Original! Secondly, they changed the names. But I read that due to director (Ram Gopal Varma)'s infringement of the trademark and copyright of (G.P. Sippy), the first movie's producer / director, the Delhi High Court ordered this changing of names. So even this addition was done by a court's verdict?? Now How Scary! Thirdly, they transformed the horse-cart driver / chaste girl into auto-rickshaw driver / sex bomb! It was sick to watch exploiting (Priyanka Kothari) sexually all the time, or turning the honorable (Sholay) into another erotic music video at some point! So the sex tone was laud, however cheapness is no uniqueness, and when this is the way to outclass, or even differ from, the original, then How Awful! Fourthly, the presence of the village was so trivial, because this is not a western anymore; this is another usual, rather trite, action. And when the climax takes place in a huge deserted warehouse, with a gang that ride motorcycles, then it is close to (Robocop) more than anything!
The movie was very poor, very dark video clip. The narrow, all indoor, locations were more than provocative since the movie is about a war. Furthermore, (Varma) shot nearly the whole thing from an inebriate's point of view, slanting and wobbling all the time, even at the serious parts! And when the final result was this movie, then you have to hate that the director very proudly put his name in the movie's title. That mirrors heavy megalomania. Actually, what's here, Mr. (Varma), to be proud about to this extent?!!!!!
Good points? Hmmm.. (Sushmita Sen) for one. Some of the songs were OK. And believe it or not, the references to (Amar Akbar Anthony) and the slight, hardly noticeable, musical ones to (Sholay) were the best of this movie!
It is another usual, rather banal, action. And with its statues as a remake of a great, WAS untouchable, movie, then it's lamentable. It utterly deserves being one of the biggest flops in Bollywood history. The difference between it and its original is the same between Pluto and the Sun. But save all the sad feelings, because I know that if the matters of one industry which produces 1100 movies yearly will still the same, then we'll have (Amar Akbar Anthony: The Remake) very soon. I just hope it'll be less bad!
Finally, (Ajay Devgan) has unhandsome, unexpressive and so silly face. This movie looks so much like him!
This is a remake of one of the greatest Indian blockbusters ever (Sholay - 1975) which was itself a remake of (Seven Samurai - 1954), yet a super remake. So, when you intent to remake, you have 2 choices: 1) Do something better. Or 2) Do something, at least, as good. Clearly, it didn't do both. This movie impudently copied the honored, learned by heart, original the way any parrot would do. It's really a classic when it comes to embody the detestable shot-by-shot transcribing, the low filmmaking, and the stark-naked bankruptcy of some artists sometimes!
Let's review the disaster; they thought that by casting (Amitabh Bachchan), one of the original's leads, as the evil man that they got a movie. They were wrong. So wrong. Because nothing was interesting enough, even seeing (Bachchan) himself! The character of (Babban) wasn't something special. Yes, (Bachchan) put some of the Amith magic to it, with attempts to give it a bit of originality. But it's still idiot; yawning like a cat meaninglessly, talking in what sounds like great wisdom while all of his lines are so naive, eating in a restaurant while he's one of the most wanted and already a fugitive (!!), etc. Speaking about originality, (Bachchan) was wearing the same outfit that he wore in (Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home) 3 years earlier (??). They gave him more screen time, cared about his own scenes, but nothing made him surpass (Gabbar Singh), played by (Amjad Khan), which was maybe the prototype of the violent evil man in the Indian cinema since the mid-1970s, and nothing end my feeling about this movie as one of (Bachchan)'s smirches, else (Abhishek Bachchan)!
So what's more laughable? (Prashant Raj)'s haircut as so 70s? The performance of the actor who played the blind father? (Mohan Lal) who is too fat, and too frigid, to be that wounded policeman? Or (Abhishek Bachchan)'s cameo, presence, and his dubbed voice saying (Mahbobba, ahh, Mahbobba)?!! No. It's the difference between the word (Sholay) and (Aag) since both of them mean Fire! There are plenty of laughable scenes where you must laugh at the movie, not with it; some foes hold machine guns, then the 2 leads attack them, with their bare hands, and win (??), at the end, the survivor lead hits nearly 5 foes, bigger than him and have machine guns, alone by just a short iron pipe! Well, some people are just lucky; and I'm talking about the ones who didn't have to see this!
Watching the same comic scenes of the original repeating so lifelessly was pathetic; how to forget that hearing the same joke twice is a turn-off?! So how about hearing them by weak actors as well?! This is what bad déjà vu stands for. It makes you ask; why didn't they CREATE something for their own in these situations? Simply why didn't they write a new movie for their own in the first place?! However, they did things of their own indeed...
Firstly, they removed the song about the colors' festival to the inspector's flash back. How Original! Secondly, they changed the names. But I read that due to director (Ram Gopal Varma)'s infringement of the trademark and copyright of (G.P. Sippy), the first movie's producer / director, the Delhi High Court ordered this changing of names. So even this addition was done by a court's verdict?? Now How Scary! Thirdly, they transformed the horse-cart driver / chaste girl into auto-rickshaw driver / sex bomb! It was sick to watch exploiting (Priyanka Kothari) sexually all the time, or turning the honorable (Sholay) into another erotic music video at some point! So the sex tone was laud, however cheapness is no uniqueness, and when this is the way to outclass, or even differ from, the original, then How Awful! Fourthly, the presence of the village was so trivial, because this is not a western anymore; this is another usual, rather trite, action. And when the climax takes place in a huge deserted warehouse, with a gang that ride motorcycles, then it is close to (Robocop) more than anything!
The movie was very poor, very dark video clip. The narrow, all indoor, locations were more than provocative since the movie is about a war. Furthermore, (Varma) shot nearly the whole thing from an inebriate's point of view, slanting and wobbling all the time, even at the serious parts! And when the final result was this movie, then you have to hate that the director very proudly put his name in the movie's title. That mirrors heavy megalomania. Actually, what's here, Mr. (Varma), to be proud about to this extent?!!!!!
Good points? Hmmm.. (Sushmita Sen) for one. Some of the songs were OK. And believe it or not, the references to (Amar Akbar Anthony) and the slight, hardly noticeable, musical ones to (Sholay) were the best of this movie!
It is another usual, rather banal, action. And with its statues as a remake of a great, WAS untouchable, movie, then it's lamentable. It utterly deserves being one of the biggest flops in Bollywood history. The difference between it and its original is the same between Pluto and the Sun. But save all the sad feelings, because I know that if the matters of one industry which produces 1100 movies yearly will still the same, then we'll have (Amar Akbar Anthony: The Remake) very soon. I just hope it'll be less bad!
Finally, (Ajay Devgan) has unhandsome, unexpressive and so silly face. This movie looks so much like him!