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."
