{"id":4101,"date":"2013-03-03T01:36:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T06:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2013-09-14T16:37:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T20:37:18","slug":"the-return-of-himmatwala-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2013\/03\/the-return-of-himmatwala-2013.html","title":{"rendered":"Death by Movie : The Return of Himmatwala (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure we are heading for the Big Bang. The world will end soon y&#8217;ll &#8211; Himmatwala is back in a new and updated avatar. Why, oh why, must film-makers rehash ghastly movies ? As if the original wasn&#8217;t bad enough, here you have a remake, with Ajay Devgun and Tamanna Bhatia. Atleast the 1983 version had Dancing Jeetu. This one has Devgan &#8211; yes he of the two-left feet fame. I know you can&#8217;t tell, but he really is grimacing in the song below. Torture it is, for him and for us.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-UKivKSxo0A\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And just for comparison, here&#8217;s the original song with Jeetendra and a chubby <a title=\"Sridevi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2012\/10\/movie-review-english-vinglish.html\">Sridevi<\/a>\u00a0(these were her <em>bachpan ke din<\/em>, remember?). The sets are eerily similar, right upto the hundreds of extras gadding about, all dressed in bright, primary hues (I&#8217;m starting a migraine). The heroine&#8217;s dress designer has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amarchitrakatha.com\">Amar Chitra Katha<\/a> hangover, note the abundance of jewellery and the Amrapali dresses. Thirty years on, Tamanna&#8217;s outfits seem to be the same as Sridevi&#8217;s &#8211; these Bollywood types are sure taking the recycle-reuse thing seriously! The hero of course comes from the modern world, i.e.; trousers and jacket &#8211; women be damned to <em>apsara-<\/em>dom. Ajay has the better deal me thinks, because he has the pink swan to ride on, AND the natty sunglasses. You agree?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1XXVw9skvXs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Himmatwala 2013 hits theaters late March. Don&#8217;t even saunter nearby; you have been warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure we are heading for the Big Bang. The world will end soon y&#8217;ll &#8211; Himmatwala is back in a new and updated avatar. Why, oh why, must film-makers rehash ghastly movies ? As if the original wasn&#8217;t bad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2013\/03\/the-return-of-himmatwala-2013.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":"","facebook_10233691416821117_190635594420624":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[163,90,76,166,46,179,55,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-163","category-all-netflix","category-bollywood","category-cringe-worthy","category-ecstatically-stupid","category-hindi-movies-on-netflix","category-previews","category-remake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":6,"uagb_excerpt":"I&#8217;m sure we are heading for the Big Bang. 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