Colored poster of Mughal-E-Azam.

By Subhash K. Jha

Mumbai, Sep 15 (IANS) Though the color version of Naya Daur hasn't been as big a success as Mughal-e-Azam, Ravi Chopra is all set to colorize many well-known classics.

"After 'Naya Daur' we'll now color our other black-and-white classic 'Gumrah', which was originally released in 1963. This will be followed by a colored version of my father B.R. Chopra's 1958 classic 'Sadhana'," Chopra told IANS.

Interestingly, Gumrah, about an unfaithful wife (Mala Sinha) and her clandestine trysts with her lover before marriage, was remade two years ago by Dharmesh Darshan as Bewafaa.

"Better the colored versions than the remakes," said Vyjayanthimala, who features in Naya Daur and the soon-to-be-re-released Sadhana.

"I very honestly feel remakes miss the spirit of the original. I much prefer our old classics to be technically updated. That way a new generation wakes up to the original without any creative tampering. Give me a colored version of a classic than a remake any day. I just don't like remakes," she added.

Besides her, many learned sections of the film industry feel black-and-white classics shouldn't be tampered with.

"I wouldn't want to see colored versions of Guru Dutt's 'Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam' or Bimal Roy's 'Bandini' or 'Sujata'," said Gulzar.

However, Rituparno Ghosh, who made Dosor, one of the rare black-and-white Indian films in the era, feels every film has its own mood and color.

He said: "You can't fill the colors of the rainbow into a summer sky."

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