K Rajani Kanth / Chennai/ Hyderabad Sep 16, 2009, 00:45 IST
Geeta Arts in talks with Bollywood stars Hrithik, Aamir for the lead role
Hyderabad-based production house Geeta Arts, maker of Bollywood blockbuster ‘Ghajini’ starring Aamir Khan, is planning to remake its latest Telugu movie – Magadheera – in Hindi.
Confirming the development, Allu Sirish, executive producer of Magadheera, told Business Standard that, “Keeping in view the potential of the multiplex-driven Hindi film market, we are planning to remake this Telugu money spinner in Hindi with an estimated budget of Rs 45 crore. We are currently in talks with the league of top eight actors in Bollywood, including Hrithik Roshan and Aamir Khan, for the role of the protagonist in this sword and sandal genre film.” Sirish, however, declined to comment on when the Hindi version will go to sets.
Magadheera, a film made on the theme of reincarnation, which begins 400 years ago with a love story between a princess and a warrior and ends in the contemporary world, has set an all-time box-office (BO) record down south, grossing nearly Rs 80 crore worldwide (Rs 65 crore gross collection including Rs 55 crore producer/distributor share in Andhra Pradesh alone). The film, made with a budget of Rs 42 crore, was released on July 31, 2009, with 500 prints and in 1,250 screens across the world.
The earlier record was held by Rajnikant-starrer 'Sivaji', which grossed Rs 65 crore in Tamil Nadu (producer/distributor share of Rs 40 crore). In Hindi, Ghajini holds the all-time record with Rs 200 crore worldwide gross collections with the producer/distributor share being 40 crore, breaking the previous BO record of Rs 70 crore (producer/distributor share Rs 45 crore) by Sunny Deol’s ‘Gadar’.
Sirish said the production house, had set up a 24-member team to tackle the physical form of piracy, besides roping in five software engineers and ethical hackers to tackle Internet piracy. “We are now in the process of nailing some of the pirates of the Internet,” he said.
“Lavishness, huge star cast including Tollywood megastar and Prajarajyam Party founder Chiranjeevi’s son Ramcharan Teja and Hollywood-style graphics in Magadheera unlocked the market potential and brought back the old school glory of the film industry. We are now in the process of dubbing this movie in Tamil with plans to reshoot some sequences with the local star cast and release it by this year end,” said the 23-year-old, who is set to take the reins of Geeta Arts from his father Allu Aravind, producer, next year.
On Geeta Arts’ future projects, which has produced 29 films till date including Prathibandh, Aaj Ka Gunda Raj, Gentleman and Ghajini in Hindi, Sirish said the production house would produce another sword and sandal movie titled 'Badrinath' with his elder brother Allu Arjun. “The film, with an estimated budget of Rs 35 crore, will be directed by VV Vinayak and will go on floor from February 2011,” he added.
Aamir is best. He did different types of roles with success in his feet. Remake should be made with aamir khan and released in 2012 making highest grosser of 2012
MAGADHEERA is glittering movie and in hindi remake " lead roll
(Ram Charan Tej) is only the perfact option " none other then, but lead heroine must be change.
I think the main thing was Kajal Agrawal who make this film Super-hit. So I suggest please convent her for the role of Indu/Mitravinda and we want to see a new face in the role of Harsha/Bhairawa..........Raj Kumar Yadav.
magadeera its a bogus movie and direction is 3grade the script is not nice its weak common to all the animation is also cheap compare with english movie like gladitor troy it is nothing and in hindi it will be flopped
ashoka the great of sivan and shahrukh khan also flopped box office average may be he chiranjeevi's son to expose in film industry for hit in hindi the movie script must nice
Posted by: anonymous
July 30 , 2011, 08:57 IST
what the hell???
dont compare our movies to the hollywood
have ever seen such animations in our bollywood movies
??????????/
and u know the movie avatar copied animation of ours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: khan
May 18 , 2010, 11:05 IST
dnt u dare speak like this about the movie...if i ask u...uacant even make a documentary....
Magadheera's Ram Charan Teja can only play that role Hrithik, Aamir, etc, are waste in front of him. They are incpable for this role. If they remake only with Ram Charan Teja can only be hit any other actor will be a flop.
Posted by: ram
January 17 , 2010, 14:10 IST
are ramcharan doesn't have that much scene to do he is one item his movie became hit only due to rajamouli hrithik is the best hero
Posted by: hari
January 12 , 2010, 15:19 IST
hahahah good comedy..... in front of aamir and hrithik he is not even a dust particle.... good actor means he should complete the movie in 6 months of however tough movies it is...
Posted by: frank
December 06 , 2009, 19:50 IST
yh!!!! i know!! hrithik is the best choice for a hindi remake of magadheera.... ramcharan did a good job.. but he can get better.... so just don't be so harsh
Posted by: raj
October 26 , 2009, 19:37 IST
no i think hrithik will best suit for that role for the hindi version. u cant declare them as waste. ram charan still has to improve a lot over his acting.
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