Highlights
- Even as remakes have become the flavour of the season in Bollywood, megastar Amitabh Bachchan personally does not favour the trend.
- "Abhishek and I feel that an original should be left (as) original. People who are doing remakes have the rights of the original films.. so they can do it," Bachchan, whose films like Satte Pe Satta and Agnipath are being remade, said when asked if his company, AB Corp, plans to try its hand at remakes.
- Bachchan said there was a generation that loved K L Saigal as Devdas. "For my generation, Dilip Kumar was the ultimate Devdas. For today's youth, it is Shah Rukh. Tastes and preferences change with generations as one goes about remaking the same product.
Even as remakes have become theflavour of the season in Bollywood, megastar Amitabh Bachchanpersonally does not favour the trend.
"Abhishek and I feel that an original should be left (as)original. People who are doing remakes have the rights of theoriginal films.. so they can do it," Bachchan, whose filmslike
Satte Pe Satta and
Agneepath are being remade, saidwhen asked if his company, AB Corp, plans to try its hand atremakes.
Bachchan said there was a generation that loved K LSaigal as Devdas. "For my generation, Dilip Kumar was theultimate
Devdas. For today's youth, it is Shah Rukh. Tastesand preferences change with generations as one goes aboutremaking the same product.
"Who knows, after some years people might feel that ShahRukh is the original Don," Big B said.
He also said that he was not a trendsetter for the"angry young man" characters. "There were few of them beforeme, prominent one being Dutt saab (Sunil Dutt) in
MotherIndia".
Bachchan said his own his 'angry young man' charactersclicked, because of the times. The youth were perceived to beangry with the system and they identified with his characterswho took on an entire system and won.
He laments that the soft lyrical quality of music hasdisappeared. The 68-year-old is hoping that the song
Haal-e-dil sung by him in the coming
Buddah Hoga TeraBaap will revive that kind of music.
The veteran actor said he was unhappy that there was lack ofgood dialogue and screenplay in today's movies, unlike filmslike
Deewar,
Trishul, Silsila, whose dialogues areremembered even today.
"Today, there is no longevity." Performing action sequences, dancing and singing at thisage was physically strenuous for him, he concedes. "I go tothe gym every day. But for this role, I trained a littlemore and looked after my diet," he added.