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From the ongoing tradition of sequels, remakes and now to coloring the cinematic content the Bollywood industry experiments while attempting to recreate the magic of our long forgotten stars and cinema, by moulding it into a new form. Enmeshing this enterprise is also the sideways ongoing debate that whether such ventures are ethical, for in many a ways what is being tempered with is the artist's vision of his project.
Well, audiences today have a liking for more youthful and urban cinema and when compared, these slow classics are rather weak in relation to the new age small budget films.
To this, noted filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan expressed his concern:
The old black and white films had a dream-like quality. That is because we tend to dream in black and white, rather than in color.
This time, the history of Mughal-e Azam's will be repeated through some projects in the pipeline like the release of the digitally coloured version of Dev Anand's 'Hum Dono' and Dilip Kumar's 'Naya Daur'.
Dev Anand on the new coloured version of 'Hum Dono' being released said:
Hum Dono' is a special film to me because I played a double role for the first time in it and everyone loved the film in those days. Any person in the world who loves Dev Anand will see 'Hum Dono'.
The timeless classics 'Hum Dono' and 'Naya Daur' will be released in colour in August this year. Both of them are based, not in terms of exquisite settings, but on the emotive plane. For example 'Naya Daur', starring Dilip Kumar and Vaijanthimala, is an eternal movie, which portrays the new emerging capitalist culture in the country. Whereas, Dev Anand takes two separate roles in this 60s Bollywood comedy-drama, 'Hum Dono' - A couple of identical looking soldiers go off to war, but when only one returns there's confusion surrounding his real identity. More in the Chopra camp is his 1967 release 'Gumraah' and all his black and white movies.
Launching the proverb 'Old wine in a new bottle' let us hope that it turns out to be a 'win- win' race.
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