Sajid Khan made a claim for his Himmatwala

Sajid Khan has made a claim about his upcoming film, Himmatwala, if people will not clap on Ajay Devgan’s entry, he will refund public’s money. Sajid’s latest venture is Himmatwala which is remake of Jitendra starrer 80’s film Himmatwala. Film is going to release on 29th March, 2013. Sajid has created a grand entry for Ajay Devgyn as grand as it used to be happened in Amitabh Bachchan  and Vinod Khanna’s film in 1980’s.

Presently, Sajid Khan is most successful director of Bollywood whose success rata as a director is 100 percent. So far he has directed three films, Heyy Babby, Housefull, and Housefull-2.  All with Akshay Kumar and all proved super hit on box office. Now he is coming with Ajay Devgyn in “Himmatwala”.

Sajid Khan is great fan of 1970-80’s films and now, he is attempting to recreate that wizard. In a group interview, he revealed his views and some fact related with this film as well as his passion about  70-80’s film, here is Sajid Khan’s words.

 “The film is based in 1983. I have kept references of 1980s. I have included a rush where Mohinder Amarnath LBWed a West Indies player (got him out on leg before wicket) and India won the World Cup (in 1983). For that commentary, I have roped in Ameen Sayani saab, Mr (Amitabh) Bachchan of radio."  

"If you talk about the 1980s - what used to happen in 1980s movies - it doesn't happen any more - the hero's entry. Except for a couple of Salman Khan's films, no importance is given to the hero's entry. The kind of entry that Amitabh Bachchan had in 'Coolie', for me, it's the entry of all time." He said further that he liked Ajay's entry in 'Phool Aur Kaante'.

He added again, "This is an open challenge that if viewers won't clap on Ajay's entry in 'Himmatwala', I will refund the ticket money. I have designed such an entry for Ajay that I was clapping while I was writing it, I was clapping while I was shooting it. I have given a lot of stress on entry," he added further.

"When I wrote scenes, I wrote it in the 1980s style. The mother-son drama, hero will fight with tiger, hero will save the whole village, he will be friends with a tiger, and 'dialoguebaazi'... something that made Mr. Bachchan or Vinod Khanna or Dharmendara a star."  

He said that  such films are not being made in Bollywoood any more, but southern filmmakers are keeping the genre alive.

"That kind of cinema is coming now only with two stars - Salman Khan and Ajay," Sajid said, adding that 'Dabangg' and 'Wanted' became big hits because they had heroism, which is very prevalent in the south. "In northern India, we are shying away from this and our culture is going more towards western cinema. I wanted to bring that back because I have grown up watching cinema of the 1970s and 1980s."

Sajid said about director K. Raghavendra Rao who had directed 1983 'Himmatwala', which had Jeetendra and Sridevi in the lead roles, "started the wave of the southern cinema (in Bollywood) with 'matkas', over-the-top dialogues and Kadar Khan and Shakti Kapoor. But it later became vulgar. From 1987-1988 it got vulgar, but before that it used to be clean-cut comedy, clean family dramas."