Zanjeer Remake: 'The Dispute is between My Brother & Salim-Javed'
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Producer Amit Mehra who's remaking his illustrious father Prakash Mehra's 1973 Amitabh Bachchan classic Zanjeer is embroiled in a remake-compensation battle together with his own brother Punit Mehra.
Punit has apparently gone to court for the compensation amount as a result of him to relinquish remake rights to Amit. But Amit says he has already submitted the due money within the honourable court and that the dispute is not between between the Mehra brothers but between Punit Mehra and Salim-Javed the scriptwriters of the unique Zanjeer who've legally staked a claim to compensation for the remake.
Says the harassed Amit, `The money is with the honourable court. Now it's as much as the legal procedure to validate who's to get the compensation. Punit or Salim-Javed. `
On his part Amit is immensely embarrassed by the family dispute popping out into the open. `Among us three brothers only I appear to have inherited our father's passion for cinema. My brothers appear to have no interest in movies.
It means whenever I WOULD LIKE to remake considered one of my father's films I've to get right into a compensation conflict with them. I'm willing to bear the pain so long as our father's legacy is carried forward. `
Amit who grew up thinking about his father's films including Zanjeer may be very proud of the result of the remake to this point. `We've shot some exceptional sequences between Ramcharan Teja and Priyanka Chopra in Hyderabad. Now we move to Mumbai for action sequences between Mr Sanjay Dutt and Ramcharan Teja. I BELIEVE Papa would was pleased with what we've done. `
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