Anushree Mehta on directing Bawarchi remake: People are making me really feel as if I’ve taken an enormous danger and accountability

Director Anushree Mehta says individuals are making her really feel as if she’s taken an enormous danger of coming onboard to remake the 1972 cult traditional, Bawarchi. “I think people are more scared than me. They are making me feel as if I have taken some huge risk. I know I have a huge responsibility,” she advised us.

Director Anushree Mehta is remaking Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 1972 classic Bawarchi, starring Rajesh Khanna.
Director Anushree Mehta is remaking Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 1972 traditional Bawarchi, starring Rajesh Khanna.

In a chat, she shared it was extra for the love of the unique director Hrishikesh Mukherjee, who has impressed a technology of filmmakers. “It is a timeless story. It is in itself a remake of Bengali film Galpo Holeo Satti (1966). So in a way I am taking a certain kind of remaking legacy forward,” she added.

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Mehta, who has beforehand helmed Mrs Undercover (2023), agreed that giving justice to a remake is certainly an enormous accountability. But she additionally believes each filmmaker is judged both approach. “Making movies in itself is a risky affair. Either you make original or a remake, you will be judged,” she stated.

“The more I listen to the noise around, the more I’ll feel pressurised. My idea is to make a film that everybody enjoys and remembers. I’m not going to get clouded by anything else,” the filmmaker advised us.

While she refuses to expose particulars about who’d get into the footwear of Rajesh Khanna and Jaya Bachchan, she shared the casting for its “crazy amazing” ensemble forged was on, and the remake was in its pre-production stage.

Would the remake have comparable plot or make alterations to swimsuit the fashionable instances? “I have to make it in a way that is relevant to the audiences in these modern times. I want this generation to also gets to watch such legendary films,” she opined.

So how does she think about her Bawarchi to be? “Whoever is going to play Bawarchi is going to be magic,” she ends.

Source web site: www.hindustantimes.com

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