Rohit Shetty reveals the reason why ‘Ram Lakhan’ remake is not happening!

For long, the gossip mills have been abuzz with the stories of ‘Ram Lakhan’ remake. Reports had it that Rohit Shetty and Karan Johar are collaborating for the remake of this cult film of 1989, with same title, starring Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff. Many names were being pitched for the remake. Shah Rukh Khan, Ranveer Singh, Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra and many more stars were being considered to be a part of this project. But nothing finalised and the film was subsequently shelved. Rohit Shetty recently revealed the reason behind it and it is disappointing.

The director revealed that stars of this generation do not want to work with each other. While conversing with media on the sets of his upcoming film ‘Golmaal Again’ in Hyderabad Rohit stated, “No, it is not happening. Two stars don’t want to work together, they just want to promote each other’s films. This young lot, they will tweet for each other, but they will not work with each other. The last lot to work together is Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar or Abhishek Bachchan and Hrithik Roshan. But the new lot won’t work with each other, I don’t know why they are insecure of each other? So, now we have just kept it aside. I guess we will have to make it again with Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff.” (Also Read: Rohit Shetty to direct Ranveer Singh in a massy flick)

This indeed is sad! It would have been really nice to see young stars recreating the magic of Ram and Lakhan on the big screen. But it seems that the fear of getting over shadowed by the other in the film is more powerful than the confidence on one’s talent!

On work front, Rohit Shetty’s next release is ‘Golmaal Again’, which is the fourth instalment of ‘Golmaal’ franchise, and has an ensemble cast of Parineeti Chopra, Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Shreyas Talpade and more.

Nikita Thakkar

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