A few years ago, released a movie ‘Bichoo’ starring Bobby Deol and Rani Mukherji where Bobby played an aging cold hitman and Rani played a young girl next door (yes,literally!!) whose family gets killed in a shoot out involving drugs. Rani seeks help of the hitman-neighbour for the clean up job, in the process falls in love with him, sings and dances on roof-tops and scenic mountain tops. I really don’t know how the movie ends.I could never make myself to sit past the next five minutes whether its the beginning or the middle even after multiple attempts. I have seen the song-n-dance sequences in those countdown shows and yes, I am a big fan of Leon a.k.a The Professional from which Bichoo is ripped off.
Directed by the French Director Luc Besson, Leon tells pretty much the same story except that the hitman is an aging character played by Jean Reno and the girl next door Matilda is a 12 year old played by Natalie Portman. The movie is so well made that it works as an action movie, as a heart warming comedy and as a story of human relations beyond romance. Gary Oldman pulls off a scary and psychic villain character in this flick.
So what is the point, I am trying to make here? Well, if some skilled director is running out of ideas and they are looking for inspiration somewhere, why not Leon? Leave Bichoo alone and don’t even talk about it. Cast Big B as Leon, find a youngster for the role of Matilda (maybe the girl from ‘Black’) and Boman Irani as the cold blooded DEA officer.
Just make sure that the movie is not going to be promoted as the story of a pedophile or it will end up as a disaster like Nishabd, just for the wrong reasons. Not to forget the legal rights for the remake.
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