This would be superb... I loved the songs of HERO,,, but never knew that it was a Subhash Ghai movie..
Subhash Ghai has a very good taste for music... On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:37 PM, rahmanfever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Subhash Ghai is planning to remake Hero with Salman Khan and Katrina > Kaif in the lead roles. > > 1983's Hero was the big break for Jackie Shroff, and also starred Meenakshi > Seshadri. "Subhashji is planning a remake set in modern times but with the > same screen names - Kishan and Radha - for his characters," a source said. > > The director will work on the script once he's done with the release of his > next film, Yuvvraaj, which is out this weekend. > > The source said the success, or failure, of Yuvvraaj would probably > condition whether Ghai would go ahead with the movie. "He's looking at the > beginning of next year to start shooting abroad," the source said. Subhash > Ghai is no longer the force in Bollywood he was in the 80s. Several of his > last movies have flopped and a new generation has taken over the frontline > of direction. > > Salman's spokesman said that Sallu had already been shown snatches of the > script for the new Hero, which he had loved. However, this was before he had > been shown the Yuvvraaj script, which is the one he decided to do with Ghai. > "Things didn't work out but he liked the Hero script," the spokesman said, > "and later he began work on Yuvvraaj. > > The source said that Ghai was quite excited by the project and had sorted > out details like *who would do the music (AR Rahman)* and play the role of > villain Pasha (Mukesh Rishi). > > Ghai wrote a lot of his own music in the 80s, including the songs for Hero. > For the remake, he would leave the melodies in place but tinker with the > lyrics, the source said. > > Jackie Shroff played Jaikishan 'Jackie' in the movie which was initially > meant to be played by Sanjay Dutt and turned it into his first hit. The > movie initially had Meenakshi Seshadri dying in the climax, after she kills > Pasha (Amrish Puri), but after a strong audience reaction, Ghai changed this > and reshot the movie to keep both alive. > > > > http://www.starboxoffice.com/newsDetails.aspx?xfile=2008/November/News_20081118_130 > > > > -- > regards.. > > Krish.. > His Music ~ My Mother Tongue > > http://www.orkut.com/AlbumList.aspx?uid=7295035299513517297 > > -- regards, Vithur
