We have loved Aamir Khan and his teammates in Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India for 24 years. But what if the late legend Dilip Kumar is seen playing Aamir’s character Bhuvan along with other yesteryear legends as his teammates? Lagaan’s associate director and co-writer Kumar Dave has been harbouring the dream of converting the film frame-by-frame into animation before Lagaan even went on floors. He shared the idea with Bollywood Hungama in an exclusive chat.
EXCLUSIVE: Lagaan associate director Kumar Dave wishes to animate the film with Dilip Kumar playing Bhuvan: “I wrote a list and shared it with Aamir Khan and Ashutosh Gowariker”
“Before the shoot, I wrote a list (of yesteryear actors as players in Lagaan’s Champaner team) and I gave a copy each to Aamir and Ashu,” he said. “I said this is my dream team. I said once the film becomes a hit, after two years, we should make a frame-to-frame animation film of it. In that animation film, instead of Aamir, the face should be of Dilip (Kumar) sahab. The other people in the dream team included, Prithviraj Kapoor, Sohrab Modi, Ajit, Pran, Mehmood, etc. All these are dhurandhar log.”
Dave said that their voices can be dubbed by dubbing artistes. “We have mind-blowing dubbing artistes who will dub their voices. We can also have Durga Khote and Vyjayanthimala. We should then release it. All those who have seen Lagaan will watch this film too. This hasn’t happened yet in India where the whole film is turned into animation as it is with the change of faces and voices. In Lagaan, Bhuvan says, ‘Sarat manjoor hai’. My Bhuvan from this animation film will say the same in Dilip Kumar’s style. It will look mind-blowing. Even while speaking about it right now, I have goosebumps,” he said.
Dave believes now the task will be much easier because of AI. “I had said this 25 years ago when there was no AI,” he said. “Today, if you tell AI to bring such voices for the characters, it will do on its own. We won’t even need dubbing artistes. I still feel Aamir should do it before the film completes 25 years next year.”
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