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MUMBAI:
Subhash Ghai promoted Mukta Arts has pocketed Rs 3 crore by
selling the remake rights of Karz to music supremo
T-series. The blockbuster Karz released in 1980 has
been a big grosser for the company.
 However,
Mukta Arts has retained the packaging rights of the cassettes,
CDs and DVDs of the remake of Karz, says Mukta Arts
CEO Ravi Gupta.
The
T-series produced remake of Karz will be directed by
Satish Kaushik and have singer turned actor Himesh Reshammiya
enacting the role Rishi Kapoor played in Ghai's original.
Tina Munim and Simi Garewal were the other two leads in the
original.
Urmila
Matondkar will be in the role of Simi Garewal in Kaushik's
remake.
Reshammiya
will also compose the music of the new version. Laxmikant-Pyarelal
won a Filmfare best music director award for this film.
Subhash Ghai's Karz was loosely inspired by the 1975 Hollywood
film The Reincarnation of Peter Proud.
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