Aamir Khan speaks: Perfectionist on the trend of Remakes

Shahrukh Khan [follow him on facebook], Salman Khan [follow him on facebook]and Aamir-when they speak, media listens and the fans hold their breath. Ace Khan Aamir recently went to see the screening of Shammi Kapoor’s ‘Teesri Manzil’ in Radio Mirchi’s Purani Jeans Film Festival and took the opportunity to speak of the trends of remakes.

Aamir [follow him on facebook] rightly maintains that it’s difficult to recapture the emotions that go in the making of the original. Though, an artist takes liberty of remaking and venting out his excitable hormones, a remake can’t meet the level of its original predecessor.

In fact, Aamir recently did ‘Ghajini’, a remake of the Tamil hit and even his ‘Dil Hai Ki Manta Hahin’ was inspired from Hollywood’s ‘It Happened One Night’. Aamir quips, “I worked in a remake of ‘Ghajini’. It was originally made in Tamil, which we remade in Hindi, but it was not an old film. In 1934, Hollywood director Frank Capra had made ‘It Happened One Night’. I read the script from collections of screenplays and I liked it so much that we adapted it and remade ‘Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin.”

Aamir further remarked that if he ever went for a remake it would be primarily to go through the experience of the characters and the storyline of the film. He also articulated that remake is also a way of paying homage to a great film.