Ram Gopal Varma Ki Sholay

[Ramu]

Ram Gopal Varma’s Sholay has had to deal with several controversies, firstly everybody’s negative reaction to him wanting to recreate a classic like Sholay and secondly the original makers, the Sippys legal lawsuit on him. Nonetheless Varma has braved all this and is still keen to make his own version of Sholay. Of course Varma has had to change several things from the original, like the names of his characters, settings and even the premise of the story, but all this has not deterred him. He will be producing the film too under his own banner and has roped in Amitabh Bachchan as Gabbar Singh, Ajay Devgan as Veeru, Prashant Raj as Jai, Mohanlal as Inspector Ranveer, Sushmita Sen as Devi, Nisha Kothari as Ghungroo and also Urmila Matondkar and Abhishek Bachchan in special appearances.
Virendra Chavan aka Veeru (Ajay Devgan) and Jai Ranade (Prashant Raj) grew up in Latur together. The two of them were like brothers and both wanted to be rich and successful quickly. Veeru was the older of the two and was like a teacher to young Jai, he was also fiercely protective about Jai. On the other hand Jai always looked up to Veeru for guidance and both were fiercely loyal to each other. Veeru worked as a bodyguard for a local politician Sharad Patil. Unfortunately the local politician Sharad Patil was also running several illegal scams on the side and when he was exposed he went to jail leaving Veeru with no job. With no hope of earning lots of money quickly in Latur, the boys decided to come to the land of dreams, Mumbai. However these two boys Veeru and Jai were not like the thousands who come to Mumbai to make it big, these two had something more, they were here to make Mumbai theirs.
Veeru and Jai knew only a few people in Mumbai and one of them was bar owner Soorma (Rajpal Yadav) who then introduced them to Shambhul Seth, a criminal with several illegal side businesses and also who had underworld connections. Veeru and Jai began to do small con jobs for Shambhul Seth and they were very good at what they did. On one occasion after a con job they had to deal with Inspector Ranveer (Mohanlal) who had been on Shambhul’s criminal tail for a long time. However inspector Ranveer knew that Veeru and Jai were not hardcore criminals but petty thieves who were looking to make a quick buck. After exposing Shambhul’s criminal activities to both the boys he appealed to them to help him in his mission to capture Shambhul and both of them promised to help him. In his endeavor to capture Shambhul Seth, inspector Ranveer was faced with a life threatening situation. It was at this time that Veeru and Jai came to his rescue and saved his life by killing Shambhul.
Veeru and Jai went to jail for their association with a criminal but inspector Ranveer never forgot their valor and effort to save him. And one day when Inspector Ranveer needed help again to capture notorious criminal Gabbar Singh (Amitabh Bachchan), he thought of the two boys Veeru and Jai. However Inspector Ranveer had some personal scores to settle with Gabbar Singh hence he could not use the help of the police and nor did he want to be associated with the underworld. Hence he decided to take the help of these two extremely able boys Veeru and Jai. A new episode would now begin in the lives of Veeru and Jai and a whole new chase and excitement would follow.


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