This is an old one that Ramgopal Verma and Ramesh Sippy’s son Suscha Sippy had been fighting for the rights of ‘Sholay’ remake in the court. The court had given its verdict in favour of Sippy, due to which Ramu had to change the name of his film to ‘RGV Ki Aag’. He also had to rename Gabbar’s character as Babban.
Now, Sippy has sold the entire rights of his ‘Sholay’ to Pritish Nandy Communications in a 100 million dollar deal. Pritish will make an animated version of the classic. Sanjay Gupta, Shankar and Priyadarshan have been chosen to direct the film and the work has already started on the animation.
