By Hindustan Times
Sanjay Dutt has bought the Hindi remake rights of Puri Jagannath's Telugu super hit, Badri, starring Pawan Kalyan, Renu Desai and Ameesha Patel, for an estimated Rs. 40 lakh and gifted the film to buddy Ajay Devgn. “Ajay is excellent with action and romance and this role suits him the most efficient. I’d
like him to regard it as his own production, work at the script, choose a director of his choice and roll with it whenever he can spare the dates. I’ll just produce the film and make sure that it gets an excellent release,” says the star.
In fact, the Sanjay says that henceforth, whenever plans a film under his banner, Sanjay Dutt Productions Pvt. Ltd, his first choice can be Ajay. “Only if Ajay has date problems or issues over the script will I AM GOING to someone else,” says Sanjay, adding that his next production after Rascals (2011) will go at the floors by the tip of the year, but he’s unsure if it will likely be Badri, the Satte Pe Satta remake or any other film.
Besides Ajay, Sanjay also admits to being as regards to Abhishek Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor and of course, Salman Khan. “Ajay and Abhishek are like my younger brothers and Ranbir is sort of a son who I’ve seen grow up,” he says. “As for Salman, he and i've been friends for over 25 years. We’re like brothers and today I’m happy to look him up there.”
Quiz him at the roughly films he’d love to make and Sanjay says, “I won’t experiment or copy. I’ll make only masala movies, so one can be paisa vasool (worth your money) commercials similar to SOS – Son Of Sardar, which Ajay is lining up for a Diwali release. We had a stupendous time shooting for it in Punjab. I don’t drink anymore so there have been no Patiala pegs, but interacting with the locals was a high in itself. MANY YEARS ago, no person desired to make action films, so actors like Ajay and me moved to lighter roles and there has been an overdose of comedy. But SOS strikes a balance between comedy and action. It’s a certain Diwali cracker.”
