Just What the World Needed: Bollywood Remaking ‘Back to the Future’

Posted by Dr. Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on December 31, 2008

Get Your Damn Hands Off Her

There’s been something missing from life, and until I read the news from RealBollywoodNews, I had no idea what it was.  It was an anonymous hole deep down in my heart, unnamed but severe. Thankfully, I now know exactly what was missing and that my life will finally have meaning.

As will yours, dear film fan.

Bollywood is finally taking its longheld tradition of stealing deftly borrowing from major Hollywood blockbusters and attacking Robert Zemeckis’s 80s icon, Back to the Future.

If the new name, Action Replay isn’t a dead giveaway (which it isn’t), the synopsis for it, claiming that Michael J. Fox appeared in the original where he has to go back and forth in time in order to set events in the right order, should be.

Award-winning, Bollywood icon Akshay Kumar is taking over the role first made famous by Fox, and the gorgeously talented Aishwarya Rai will handle the lead female role…which could be either his mother or the girl he leaves blacked out on the porch swing. That means Action Replay will be the second-goofiest film Rai appears in as she’ll be in Pink Panther 2 next year.

What do you think? How awesome does this sound? Is the prospect of a Bollywood version of Back to the Future way better than winning the lottery or just slightly better than winning the lottery?


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  • paco
    as long as it's not a HOLLYWOOD remake we're good. I can already see emile hirsh as Marty and god knows who as Dr. Brown. That'd be a HUGE disaster. Although, i'd see it just out of curiosity (guilt :S :( )
  • Mladen
    I don't see a problem. America has been shamelessly ripping off (i mean 'remaking') foreign movies for decades.
  • dude, it's Bollywood. I've seen Bollywood ripping off the Matrix, the Wedding Singer, Memento, and Amelie.

    it's not going to be that good. I'm disappointed with Aishwarya for signing up to do this crap. she can get acting gigs in better movies.
  • She could "blow up" over here. But Indian's would hate her for going outside of Bollywood. To bad she can't do both and still be respected on both sides. She could do much better even by Bollywood standards.
  • joshi38
    If anything, I just find this to be really hilarious.
  • Jen
    I love you Bollywood, but NO!! Back to the Future does not need to be remade by ANYONE! No, No, NO!!!
  • I can't wait to hear the new version of Power Of Love.
  • I am from India,
    and this news is totally unsubtantiated!! probably some bolly-fan-geek's wet dream!
  • Oh god. After seeing slumdog millionaire, bollywood needs to wake up. When a white englishman makes a better Indian film than any other bollywood director ever, you know there's an inherent flaw in that silly formula.I grew up watching bollywood films, but after maturing into the pompous film geek that i am, I find it extremely hard to stand even an hour of any of them. Bollywood fail.
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