Extracted from police files, the film is about a notorious conman who, along with his team of swindlers, would pose as CBI officers and raid the houses of politicians and businessmen, and walk away with their black money.
This week's big release, Neeraj Pandey's heist thriller Special 26starring Akshay Kumar, is set in the eighties. Hero Ajay is seen sporting multi-coloured leather jackets while the debutant actress Tamanaah matches Sridevi's Amrapali outfit dazzle. To revisit the eighties hit, Sajid has matched the look, ambience, dances and scenes of the original. Sajid Khan calls Himmatwala, a remake of the 1983 blockbuster starring Jeetendra and Sridevi, an ode to the retro-themed original that had trademark loud melodrama and music. We wanted to recreate the charm of the era as narrated in the novel," says Abhishek. "Since Kai Po Cheis based on a famous novel read by many, it was important for us to get the look of the characters and the ambience of the scenes right. Sushant Singh Rajput, Amit Sadh and Rajkumar Yadav, who play the three lead characters of the film, were told to refrain from rigorous workouts in order to retain a middle-class, boy-next-door look. The film based on Chetan Bhagat's novel The 3 Mistakes Of My Life and narrates the story of three friends and their growing up years in the nineties at the time of the Gujarat riots. To create a small-town colony in Vadnagar, Gujarat, for his film Kai Po Che, director Abhishek Kapoor instructed his team to minutely study news clippings and pictures of Gujarat in the nineties. It is about experimenting with what a film sets out to narrate.
Going retro is no longer about adding a saleable twist to formula.
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