Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag

Published: September 20, 2007, 10:55 pm

Tags: nisha kothari, ajay devgan, prashaant raj, amitabh bachchan, ram gopal varma ki aag, sushmita sen

Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan, Sushmita Sen, Prashaant Raj, Nisha KothariDirected by Ram Gopal VarmaRating: **No, this isn't the worst re-make you're likely to see. Nor does Ram Gopal Varma's Aag claim to have the wherewithal, the stock, substance and spice of Sippy's Sholay.Let's just call Aag an interesting revisionist version of Sholay and be done with.The biggest mistake we can make while watching Varma go back to his favourite film (with his favourite actor, Amitabh Bachchan, playing a role that has already been done to 'dread') is to look for signs symbols and signals from the past.Varma is to blame for doing some sequences as parodic homages to Sippy's Sholay. What is that, if not a tittering tribute to the original, when the neo-Samba (played by a Varma regular Ravi Kale) comes back after being hammered by the two mercenary heroes.Bachchan Babban does the Kitne aadmi tthey scene like a rude game of Russian roulette with the stakes being life and death.Trouble is,

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