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‘Sippys wanted Jackie Chan for Sholay 2’: Ram Gopal Varma recalls origins of Aag, reveals it would have pitted Gabbar and Veeru’s sons against each other


Ram Gopal Varma recalled the meeting he had with producer Sascha Sippy, who approached him to direct a sequel to Sholay featuring Jackie Chan and the children of Gabbar Singh and Veeru.
Director Ram Gopal Varma looked back on arguably the biggest disaster of his career, Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag, an unofficial remake of the iconic Hindi film Sholay. In an interview, RGV said that nobody thought that doing the film was a bad idea initially, but that certain legal troubles during the making of it affected its quality.

RGV told Galatta Plus that he was initially approached by original director Ramesh Sippy’s producing partner to direct a sequel to Sholay, which would have continued the story with the offspring of Gabbar Singh and Veeru. He revealed that they also wanted Jackie Chan do to the film, because they wanted to tap into the Chinese market.
He said, “No one said that (it was a bad idea). Bachchan is there, Ajay Devgn is there, Sushmita Sen is there, no one had a problem with the content. What happened is, halfway through, we got into a lot of legal issues, with the Sippys claiming that we cannot use the story, and the last thing that was on anybody’s mind was the film. I’m not trying to push the blame on something else.”

RGV said that his initial idea for the film was very different, and recalled a story about being approached by Sascha Sippy for a Sholay sequel. He said, “He had an idea. Lot of actors died in the original film, and some actors also died, like Sanjeev Kumar and Amjad Khan… So, his story was that Helen had the child of Gabbar after ‘Mehbooba o Mehbooba’, and Dharam ji and Hema ji have a son, so that was one more hero we got. And Jaya ji is also alive. Something he concocted. He also said, ‘We’ll make a character for Jackie Chan’.”
RGV initially thought that he was talking about somebody else. But Sascha Sippy said that because Sholay is such a popular brand across Asia, and Jackie Chan is the biggest star in Asia, ‘the combination’ of these two factors would capture the Chinese market. “So we had to figure out a way to get Jackie Chan in Sholay 2,” RGV said with a laugh, adding that he quietly left the meeting, but it got him thinking about another way to tackle Sholay.

Aag remains one of the most reviled films in history. It currently has a 1.4/10 rating on the site IMDb, and was drew negligible attention at the box office. The film also starred Malayalam star Mohanlal. Jackie Chan went on to work with Indian actors Sonu Sood and Disha Patani in the 2017 film Kung Fu Yoga.

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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