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Spot the difference: How different is Zanjeer remake from the original?

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1 The protagonist Vijay Khanna as played by Amitabh Bachchan in the original Zanjeer was so angry with the failure of the socio-political system, he could barely speak about normal mundane things and could not even express his love for the street-smart girl Jaya Bhaduri.

In the Zanjeer remake, Ramcharan Teja is a smooth talker and a dextrous lover.

2 In the original, there was not even a hint of physical intimacy between the Big B and Jaya. In the remake, Ramcharan and PC go to bed together. And there’s no snoring...

3 The biggest difference is in the female protagonist’s character.

Jaya was a chakku-churi waali. Priyanka plays a sophisticated NRI who witnesses a murder.

4The original cop-hero did not even dream of singing and dancing. In the original script, writers Salim-Javed were so particular about not allowing the angry inspector to get out of character that a romantic song was filmed on a street performer pair as the Big B and Jaya stared down from the window.

In the new Zanjeer, the angry cop breaks out into a jig in the Telugu version because he’s played by Ramcharan Teja and his fans expect him to dance.

5 A recurring dream sequence about a horse in the original is done away with in  the remake. Says a source close to the project, ‘Who needs a horse when we have a stud like Ramcharan?’

6 Bindu played the villain’s Mona darling as a slit-skirted gyrating flooze. Mahie Gill’s Mona will be shown indulging in much more horizontal activities for the new-millennium Teja, Prakash Raj.

And yes, Mahie wears a bikini which Bindu with her multi-layered persona (and we aren’t talked about her soul) couldn’t dream of.

7 In the new Zanjeer, the character of an investigative journalist, played by Atul Kulkarni, was never part of the original. Atul’s journalist character is said to be based on the slain journalist J Dey.

Lakhia claims they wrote the script long before the J Dey tragedy. We believe.

8 Sher Khan as played by Pran in the original Zanjeer had only one major fight sequence with the cop-hero. That was because Sher Khan was played by the past-his-prime Pran.

In the neo-Zanjeer ‘Sher Khan’ Sanjay Dutt gets into several major physical altercations with the cop-hero. Because that’s what Sanju and Ramcharan are expected to do.

9 Jaya had a relatively small role in the original Zanjeer which she did for her boyfriend’s sake. PC has a much more fleshed-out role in the new Zanjeer.

10 The angry cop in Zanjeer never knew he would one day speak in Telugu. Ramcharan turns the original Hindi-speaking cop into a bilingual.

But Priyanka doesn’t speak in Telugu. Singer Chinmayi who sang the Titli in Chennai Express has dubbed in Telugu for PC. But PC promises she will do her own Telugu lines in the sequel to Zanjeer. We can’t wait.

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