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Movies OK brings monsoon blockbuster festivals
MUMBAI : Monsoons are best spent with loved ones, a hot cup of coffee and your favorite movies on your home screen! This July, Movies OK is all set to make your monsoon a lot more exciting with two fantastic festivals, Kuch Kisse, Kuch Kahaniyan Aur Thodi Baarish and 8 Ka Thaat that promise to leave you enthralled and entertained.
Kuch Kisse, Kuch Kahaniyan Aur Thodi Baarish, a festival perfect to watch with your loved ones, aims to make your monsoon afternoons magical. The festival will air movies including the superhit Aashiqui, Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Saif Ali Khan starrer Kal Ho Na Ho, Shahid Kapoor’s debut film Ishq Vishk, the romantic drama Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein, Mann, I Hate Love Storys, Dil, Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji and Kahin Pyar Na Ho Jaye. This wonderful movie bonanza will culminate on 29th July with Alia Bhatt and Arjun Kapoor starrer romcom, 2 States.
8 Ka Thaat, the prime time action festival, will feature Bollywood’s biggest action heroes that are bound to get your adrenaline racing. Kick starting with Ajay Devgn and Emraan Hashmi starrer Once Upon a Time in Mumbai, the festival will also feature Saif Ali Khan’s Bullet Raja and the dramatic tale of Amitabh Bachchan’s Agneepath amongst a host of others.
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Jio Studios, Sanjay Dutt team up to revive Khal Nayak
Rights acquired for new version, format under wraps as remake plans take shape.
MUMBAI: The villain is back and this time, he’s rewriting his own script. Jio Studios has partnered with Three Dimension Motion Pictures and Aspect Entertainment to revive the 1993 cult classic Khal Nayak, marking a fresh chapter for one of Bollywood’s most iconic anti-hero stories. The original film, directed by Subhash Ghai under Mukta Arts, was a commercial and cultural milestone, with Sanjay Dutt’s portrayal of Ballu becoming one of Hindi cinema’s most memorable performances.
Dutt, along with Aksha Kamboj, has now acquired the rights from the original creators, bringing on board Jio Studios and its President Jyoti Deshpande to steer the project creatively.
While the exact format whether remake, sequel, prequel, or a completely new narrative remains undisclosed, the collaboration aims to reinterpret the story for contemporary audiences while retaining the essence that made the original a defining film of the 1990s.
The move taps into a broader industry trend of reviving legacy intellectual property, particularly characters with strong recall value. “Khal Nayak” was notable for pushing mainstream Hindi cinema into morally grey territory at a time when heroes were largely one-dimensional, making Ballu’s character a standout.
The project also marks the film production debut of Aspect Entertainment, signalling a push towards more technology-led storytelling frameworks. Meanwhile, Jio Studios continues to expand its slate, having built a library of over 200 films and series, with more than 60 titles collectively winning 500-plus awards.
For Dutt, the revival is as much personal as it is strategic, a return to a role that reshaped his career. For the industry, it is another sign that nostalgia, when paired with scale, remains a powerful box-office proposition.
Because in Bollywood, some villains never fade, they just wait for the perfect comeback.
