Razia Sultan (1983) was also in the making for a decade, as was Aatank (1996), launched in the early ‘80s as an underwater action drama with Dharmendra and Hema Malini being the common lead pair. Its prints were missing, till accidentally discovered in a Mumbai studio and maintained well by chance! Not that it helped musically, but this Salman Khan-Madhuri Dixit-Shah Rukh Khan film still turned out to be an above-average earner.Īmong the rank oldies, some sorts of record holders are Pakeezah (1972), which began filming in the 1950s, Love In Bombay (2013), which was launched when lead artistes Joy Mukherjee, Kishore Kumar (as actor) and Waheeda Rehman were still decently saleable in the early 1970s. Two years earlier, the Nadeem-Shravan score of Hum Tumhaare Hain Sanam was similarly tampered with and N-S were left with just one song. However, by the time it was up for release with a new director, Laxmikant had gone, music styles had changed, and so two songs of five were replaced by compositions of Surendra Sodhi that did not work anyway! The Chaalbaaz combo of Pankaj, Sridevi and Laxmikant-Pyarelal was hot when the Akshay Kumar film was launched in the mid-1990s. Of these three films, the “hottest” for what it was worth was Mere Biwi Ka Jawaab Nahin co-starring Sridevi, whose original director, before it was stuck, was Pankuj Parashar. In Deewana…, the complete genre was changed, but in other cases, it can be only the script, and maybe the climax.Īkshay Kumar had three delayed releases in 2004 in the wake of a successful run, along with the fact that he had signed films with Subhash Ghai, Abbas-Mustan and Anil Sharma, all top guns then. A replacement director or even buyer (producer), apart from financiers and distributors, may have different ideas about what works with audiences in a changed era. Thus, such reshooting can be necessitated by the passage of time and a change in directors as well. The film was finally released without the old title (which was similarly outdated), after being reshot as a thriller with the same cast! It released in 2013 and bombed anyway.
Bokadia, as a romantic comedy with Govinda. Deewana Main Deewana was the final title of Priyanka Chopra’s first signed film that was launched in 2002 by K.C.
#JAGGA JASOOS FULL MOVIE FACE MOD#
The terse and mod Sandwich replaced Hum Do Hamara Ek, which was an obvious but old-fashioned title. The look of a film being paramount, the first change in delayed films happens in the title, where a ‘trendy’ (sic) one has an advantage of face value.