Ramesh Sippy to make remake of Sholay

In 1975 Ramesh Sippy, the well-known face in Hindi cinema directed the blockbuster hit film Sholay which turned out to be history in Bollywood. The movie starred Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Jaya Bachchan playing pivotal characters received loads of accolades.

Ramesh Sippy has recently declared that he would make his comeback in movie direction soon with the remake of Sholay. The ace filmmaker asserted that currently he is working on the script and would make a official announcement of the film once the paper work is done. Ramesh Sippy's last direction was in the year 1995 with actor Shahrukh Khan starrer Zamaana Deewana. Since then, Ramesh Sippy has only been producing films.
Ramesh’s productions Kuch Naa Kaho and Bluffmaster were in addition influential in launching his son Rohan Sippy as a director. Ramesh Sippy is completely remembered for directing “Sholay” as his other projects couldn’t touched the height of success. Dum Maaro Dum is also produced by Ramesh Sippy and directed by Rohan Sippy. The father-son combo have full expectations with Dum Maaro Dum, as Rohan Sippy has not given any superhit film so far. Ramesh Sippy’s daughter Sheena Sippy is married to Shashi Kapoor's son Kunal Kapoor. Ramesh Sippy has been married twice; his present wife is Bollywood actress Kiran Juneja. Ramesh Sippy has also directed a very booming television daily soap titled ‘Buniyaad’ which was related to the subject of India and Pakistan partition and formerly telecasted on Indian television channel Doordarshan long back in 1987.

The last three films Ramesh Sippy directed were Bhrashtachar in 1989, Akayla in 1991 and Zamana Deewana in 1995 respectively. But all these films were box office washouts. Ramesh has also produced films like 1968 release Brahmachari, Trishna which was released in 1978, the 2003 film Kuch Naa Kaho, Abhishek Bachchan starrer Bluffmaster!, John Abraham, Nana Patekar featured Taxi No. 9211, Fear (2007), Akshay Kumar starrer Chandni Chowk to China, Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu starrer Dum Maaro Dum. We hope that the director would soon come up with the new script for the remake of Sholay..

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G.P.Sippy

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Born into an aristocratic Sindhi family, Sippy began his professional career as a lawyer in the Sindh province of undivided India. Before Sippy was sucked in by the glamour of the tinsel town, Sippy was a builder in Mumbai for a while.

Sippy claimed to have pioneered the concept of co-operative housing in India. sippy produced his first venture, "Sazaa" in 1951. He turned a director and made "Marine Drive". The same year, he followed it up with "Adil-E-Jehangir" in which he also played a brief role.

The Asha Parekh-Biswajeet musical starrer "Mere Sanam" released in 1965 was his first early major hit. It was followed by the 1968 musical hit "Brahmachari" starring Shammi Kapoor and Rajshri

The turning point in G.P. Sippy's production banner, Sippy Films, came when his son, Ramesh Sippy, debuted as director with "Andaz" in 1971 and made his second film "Seeta Aur Geeta" the next year.

He then planned his next film - "Sholay". The film was planned as a dacoit film and few could imagine the cult status that it would attain.

Sippy once told this correspondent that when Salim-Javed were writing the script for the film, he declared he wanted the film's principal character - Gabbar Singh - to be a jeans-clad dacoit to give him a different image from that of the typical dacoits of Hindi films.

Sippy was not only a filmmaker but also a crusader, he not only wanted to make good films but also wanted to change the way films are made.

Sippy was the first to raise the demand of 'industry' status to the films so that producers could avail of institutional finance for filmmaking, a demand that the government conceded much later.

He was fearless and had tremendous self-confidence. His leadership ventures extended even beyond Bollywood. After the collapse of the Janata Party in 1979, Sippy took the lead along with Dev Anand and Sanjeev Kumar to float an all-India political party called National Party.

G.P.Sippy produced or directed a score of other motion pictures, and in 2000 he was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Film Festival, Mumbai. As a director G.P.Sippy directed Mr. India in 1961, Bhai-Bahen in 1959, Shrimati 420 in 1956, Marine Drive in 1955 and Adil-E-Jahangir in 1955. Sippy died at the age of 93. But he would be most remembered as the author of a new Bollywood chapter - as producer of "Sholay".