In 2017, David Dhawan remade his cult classic Judwaa. Titled Judwaa 2, the film starred his son Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez and Taapsee Pannu in the lead role. Now he is all set to once again remake his another directorial. We are talking about Coolie No. 1. David Dhawan will be remaking the film and it will star Varun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan in the lead roles.
The songs of Coolie No. 1 are still remembered by the audiences, especially Main Toh Raste Se Ja Raha Tha and Husn Hai Suhana. And now, David Dhawan has revealed that the track Main Toh Raste Se Ja Raha Tha will be recreated for Varun and Sara. The song will be composed by Tanishk Bagchi who is nowadays known for recreating the old songs. While talking to a tabloid, David Dhawan said, “It is an important song for our film, and it has the heart. But times have changed so I am going to picturise it very differently with Varun and Sara.”
Talking about the original song, David Dhawan recollected that they had shot the song in Bangalore. He said, “We found a place in Bangalore with a lot of Bhel Puri stalls and had the lead pair (Govinda and Karisma) strolling through it, exploring ‘Mumbai’. I thought it was the best way to capture the essence of the Maximum City back then.”
Talking about the new version, the director said, “It’s a fun song, showing the growing bond between the couple.” We are sure it will be quite pressurising for Varun and Sara to recreate the song as Govinda and Karisma Kapoor’s dance moves had impressed one and all.
The shooting of Coolie No. 1 remake starts on 5th August in Bangkok. It will be for the first time when we will get to see Varun and Sara on the big screen together and we are quite excited to see their fresh pairing. The movie is slated to release 1st May 2020.
Speaking at a business event, she basically said her village roots made it harder.
Directly named SRK, calling him a Delhiite with a convent education.
Threw "brutal honesty" out there as her secret weapon.
You can already imagine the social media frenzy this kicked off.
It's the latest salvo in the whole insider-outsider war that never ends.
Well, she's done it again. Kangana Ranaut, now MP, just reframed the entire Bollywood struggle debate with one comparison. At a recent industry gathering in Delhi, she got to talking about her success. And then she brought up Shah Rukh Khan. Not with nostalgia. She positioned her own journey from a no-name Himachal village as the tougher path against his, what she termed, convent-educated Delhi background, and it obviously sparked reactions online.
Kangana says coming from a small village and being brutally honest shaped her journey in Bollywood Getty Images
So what did she actually say?
Her exact words: "Why did I get so much success?" she asked the room. Classic Kangana, starting with a question she's about to answer herself. "There is probably nobody else who came from a village and got such success in the mainstream. You talk about Shah Rukh Khan. They are from Delhi, convent-educated. I was from a village that nobody would have even heard of, Bhamla." And the punchline is that she believes it's her "brutal honesty" that did the trick.
Kangana calls brutal honesty her secret weapon in the film industryGetty Images
Let's talk about these two different worlds
Look at the facts. Kangana. Bhamla. Left at 15 for Mumbai, a kid with no roadmap. Her fight in the industry is well-documented, every step a battle she talks about. Four National Awards though, that's huge. Then Shah Rukh. Delhi. Lost his parents young, sure. But he cut his teeth on TV, became a name before he even hit films. His Mumbai move in '91 led to... well, to being King Khan. Both stories are about making it from nothing. But nothing means different things depending on your postcode, apparently.
Shah Rukh Khan’s Delhi upbringing gets compared to Kangana’s village struggleGetty Images
And the fallout?
It's a mess online, obviously. You have one side cheering her on for saying the quiet part out loud: that a village girl with no English has a steeper hill to climb than a guy from the capital. Then the other side is just exhausted. They're saying it's a cheap shot, that it diminishes Khan's own loss and grind. Does this debate even go anywhere? It just seems to recycle every few months. But people click. They always click.
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