Not very excited about doing remakes: Vidya Balan
New Delhi March 17 (IANS) Actress Vidya Balan says she is not very keen to do remakes especially if it is that of a classic movie.
I am not very excited about the thought of doing remakes especially if it is a classic. But sometimes your greed as an actor overpowers you and every rule that you make for yourself Vidya said here.
The actress will next be seen in Begum Jaan -- a Hindi adaptation of National Award-winner Srijit Mukherji s critically-acclaimed Bengali outing Rajkahini. The film sees Vidya play a brothel owner in a story of survival set against the backdrop of the country s partition in 1947.
The film produced by Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt s Vishesh Films is set to release on April 14.
Talking about the movie Vidya said: Srijit came to me for the original which I couldn t do at that point. So I was glad he came back to me. When I saw the film I didn t want to give it a miss.
She says she was not trying to mimic the original.
Mahesh also added that Begum Jaan is not a remake as there is freshness in the narrative. Mukherji also asserts that it is a retelling of the story from a different perspective.
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