IMAGE: Dev Anand and Zeenat Aman in Hare Rama Hare Krishna {Photograph}: Rediff Archives

Dev Anand had many desires when demise snatched him away from us. One in all his largest desires was to do a sequel to his 1971 musical blockbusters Hare Rama Hare Krishna which clocked 54 years on December 9.

“I’ve the script for Hare Rama Hare Krishna Aaj which takes ahead the story of the sooner movie,” Devsaab as soon as informed Subhash Okay Jha.

“It’s not a remake of Hare Rama Hare Krishna. I do not imagine in remakes. I imagine in transferring ahead. Each scene each character besides mine can be new. If Dev Anand performed Prashant in 1971 he’ll play Prashant in 2012 as properly.”

The sequel by no means occurred.

Repetition was demise to Devsaab. In his sometimes exuberant means he as soon as informed Subhash, “It’s such an exhilarating expertise to let the artistic course of circulate via you. When you find yourself falling again on a remake or remix how are you being artistic?”

“I would by no means do a remake of any of my movies, not even Hare Rama Hare Krishna. All my movies are unique. Man strikes on bodily and emotionally. Once you remake a movie, how are you doing it justice and even guaranteeing its success? The viewers that noticed the unique isn’t the identical that can see the remake.”

“A remake is a straightforward means out. As a substitute of tapping your individual creativity you merely faucet into one other individual’s creativity. How are you going to consider doing one thing that is been achieved already? I can by no means do it. Right now folks bear in mind my Information and Hare Rama Hare Krishna as vividly as they did when it was made. So why remake them?”

“I would by no means remake Hollywood movies both. They’re stuffed with gimmicks as of late. Return to the grand Hollywood period of the Nineteen Fifties of the nice makers and stars… the place are they now?”