While most non-Hindi speaking American audiences may be unfamiliar with Tiger Shroff, he is one of the biggest stars in the world, and also one of the highest paid. So when he announced that he’d be starring in a remake of Sylvester Stallone’sRambo, the entire planet sat up and took noticed. Sadly, the much anticipated foreign redo has hit the skids, and is dead in the water for the time being. With so much enthusiasm behind the project, and even Stallone giving it his blessing, what happened to theRambo Bollywood Remake?
Well, YRF has announced a new untitled action film coming from India that pairs Hrithik Roshan with Tiger Shroff, and it’s causing tremendous buzz. Tiger is reportedly a huge fan of Hrithik, and jumped at the chance to work with him. Their movie will be filled with spectacular stunts and crazy dance scenes that will take Bollywood in a whole new direction. However, the massive interest in this project is causing it to move forward quicker than anticipated. And because of that, Tiger Shroff has had to bail on his planned remake of the1982 action classicthat most fans know asFirst Blood, though the title has been changed in various home video releases and other parts of the world to cash in on the Rambo name. A source close to both the scrappedIndia Rambo remakeand the untitled Hrithik/Tiger action-dance-thriller had this to say.
“Tiger is currently filmingBaaghi 2, which will be completed by December. Hrithik will also be available around the same time after he wraps up Vikas Bahl’s biopic on mathematician Anand Kumar. Given that both actors can commence working on Siddharth’s film next year, the unit decided to go ahead with this project first.”
The untitled movie the pair are working on is one of the costliest ever produced by Bollywood. Actress Vaani Kapoor is reportedly playing Hrithik’s romantic interest in the movie. She had a bit of a flop withBefikre, and she hopes to redeem herself with this next project, which could be one of the biggest Bollywood blockbusters of all time.
The upcoming untitled movie will be directed by Siddharth Anand. It marks the second time he’s worked with Hrithik Roshan. The pair collaborated on the 2014 hitBang Bang, which was a remake of the Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz movieKnight and Day, and actually proved to be a bigger hit on a global scale. Siddharth Anand was also set to direct theRamboremake. But producers have since asked the director to scale back the budget.
Anand remains hopeful thatRambowill still get made. But he knows it’s not going to be easy. He had this to say about the budget problems, remaining enthusiastic that the action adventure would begin shooting next year. He says this to RumourNews.
“Rambo is not an easy project to pull off. Since it needs to be shot in the snow, we will begin filming towards the end of 2018.”
Interestingly enough,First Bloodhas very little snow in it. And was shot on a relatively low budget in the forest. The Rambo character has faced similar challenges of returning to the big screen in the U.S.Sylvester Stallonehas been planningRambo 5for years, hoping to make it the final chapter in his saga, but for now the movie is stalled, with Sly focusing his energy instead on theEscape Planfranchise, withEscape Plan 2already shot andEscape Plan 3in production now. He will then move onto write and directCreed 2, a follow-up to his Oscar nominatedRockyspin-off, which he will also star in. There are also plans for an AmericanRamboreboot without Sylvester Stallone, but that movie is also currently stuck in development hell. You can check out Rumor News for more on this story as it breaks. Despite the movie not even being in production, the BollywoodRambodoes have a pretty cool movie poster, which we’ve included.
