Jeetendra will play thakur in <i>Sholay</i> remake
Courtesy:
IndiaFM
Monday,
October
30,
2006
Ekta
Kapoor
recently
announced
her
next
production
Gabbar
Singh
-
the
Bhojpuri
remake
of
all
time
blockbuster
Sholay.
Now
Ekta's
father
Jeetendra
will
be
making
his
debut
in
a
Bhojpuri
film
by
starring
in
Gabbar
Singh.
And
which
is
the
role
that
he
would
be
playing?
No,
it's
not
Gabbar
but
that
of
Thakur.
The
idea
of
having
Jeetendra
as
Thakur
came
from
the
director
of
the
film
Mahesh
Pandey.
Pandey
wanted
a
senior
actor
to
play
that
role
and
since
Amitabh
Bachchan
and
Shatrughan
Sinha
have
already
starred
in
Bhojpuri
Films,
he
thought
that
Jeetendra
was
a
better
option.
When Pandey informed Ekta about his idea, she was charged about it and agreed to convince her father to play the role. The film will be a different version of Sholay altogether. It will be a film from the perspective of Gabbar Singh and about his life.
However, Pandey says that his film will retain all the important characters like Jai, Veeru, Basanti and Radha. The rest of the cast is yet to be finalized but the film will go on floors early next year.
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