Coolie No. 1 Screenplay Writer Rumi Jaffery Was Against The Idea Of Film's Remake
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By Filmibeat Desk
While
David
Dhawan's
last
directorial
Coolie
No.
1
was
a
hit
on
Disney+
Hotstar,
the
film
was
trolled
mercilessly
on
social
media
owing
to
its
many
scenes,
Varun
Dhawan
and
Sara
Ali
Khan's
over-the-top
acting
and
dialogues.
Now,
the
latest
reports
suggest
that
the
screenplay
writer
of
the
film,
Rumi
Jaffery
was
against
the
idea
of
the
film's
remake
from
the
beginning,
but
chose
to
do
it
owing
to
his
old
friendship
with
David
Dhawan.
Bollywood
Hungama
quoted
a
source
as
saying,
"Rumi
and
David
go
back
a
long
long
way.
In
fact,
David's
sons
Rohit
and
Varun
Dhawan
call
him
'Uncle'
and
Rumi
has
cuddled
them
both
in
his
lap
when
they
were
kids.
Rumi
has
written
a
majority
of
David's
hits.
When
David
asked
Rumi
to
write
the
remake
of
their
1995
hit
Coolie
No.
1,
Rumi
was
totally
against
the
idea.
He
felt
what
worked
in
1995
won't
work
now.
But
David
was
adamant.
He
told
Rumi
not
to
worry
and
do
it
for
Varun's
sake."
The
source
further
added
that
things
turned
worse
when
Farhad
Samji
came
on
board
as
the
dialogue
writer.
The
source
revealed
that
Rumi
was
told
that
Farhad
has
been
in
touch
with
today's
generation,
and
he
would
bring
in
the
contemporary
feel
to
the
remake.
The
source
further
added,
"But
as
the
film
progressed
there
were
many
changes
that
Rumi
was
horrified
about.
The
biggest
of
them
being
the
change
in
Kader
Khan's
character.
Kader
Saab's
Hoshiyar
Chand
was
a
highlight
in
the
original
Coolie
No.
1.
When
Rumi
was
told
Hoshiyar
Chand
was
now
Jeffrey
Rozario
(played
by
Paresh
Rawal)
he
was
horrified.
He
asked
David
why
the
Hindu
character
in
the
original
was
converted
into
a
Christian
and
if
he
was
a
Catholic
now,
why
was
the
Pundit,
played
by
Javed
Jaffrey
coming
to
Rozario
with
a
rishta
for
his
daughter?"
Apparently
nothing
made
sense
to
Rumi,
but
he
saw
that
David
Dhawan
was
pretty
confident
in
letting
Farhad
modernize
Coolie
No.
1,
so
he
kept
his
calm
and
went
ahead
with
the
project.
The
source
also
revealed
that
Rumi
wanted
the
song
'Mirchi
Lagi
Toh' to
be
shot
on
the
streets
of
Mumbai
and
not
in
a
studio.
Unfortunately,
the
opposite
happened
and
left
Jaffery
quite
unhappy.
However,
despite
such
incidents,
Rumi
doesn't
have
any
bitterness
against
David
Dhawan
and
his
sons
Varun
and
Rohit.