Screen Daily has some interesting details on yet another Mira Nair project (thanks, Brimful!)
[Nair] recently acquired the remake rights to an Indian “blockbuster” and has sold them on to an as yet undisclosed Hollywood studio. “It will be the first time there has been a reverse, when Hollywood will buy Bollywood. I’m going to remake it in an African-American context.”
Blockbuster in an African-American context? Maybe Shaft meets Sholay! I can see it now: Will Smith channels Amitabh, Martin Lawrence does Dharmendra. Don Cheadle sneers as Gabbar Singh, Mya dances over rough-cut bling. Instead of ‘Mehbooba Mehbooba,’ we get ‘Girls Dem Sugar.’ And all the motorbike scenes are filmed on a wicked Japanese racer.
I think the reverse is even funnier, Indian ripoffs of Hollywood films. But I hear that’s been done.
Mira, no charge for the treatment. Just send me a couple of points off the back end.
So, if desi couples get transported to either kashmir or the alps for their dance routines, where will black couples be beamed to?
Martha’s Vineyard
very funny..that would be a fun movie to watch.. I read in “Times of India” that mira Nair is meeting indian actress Rani mukerjee in NY about a indian film with Rani as the lead.. And I also read that a couple of hollywood producers are trying to get remake rights for the hilarious hindi movie “Munnabhai MBBS” or it could be remake rights for aamir khan’s next movie”The Rising” staring aamir,Rani and amisha.