CASABLANCA - BOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR TO REMAKE CASABLANCA

BOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR TO REMAKE CASABLANCA

Indian director Rajeev Nath is making a Bollywood version of the WWIIclassic Casablanca, which starred Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Berman.Moreover, he plans a premiere of the movie in Casablanca, Morocco itself."My film will be a tribute to the original," Nath told the Associated Press."As a student of films, I had watched this great classic 20 times." In thenew version, the Bogart character has been changed to an Indiandiplomat-turned restaurateur who helps his lover and her husband, both Tamilseparatist rebels fighting the Sri Lankan government, escape from India..

08/08/2007