B-Town has been infatuated with the 1985 Robert Zemeckis’ science-fiction comedy Back To The Future for a long time now.

Over 20 years later, two directors are planning to remake the classic in films starring two of this year’s biggest stars — Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar.
In the first development, Sohail Khan is tackling the subject with brother Salman in the lead role and interestingly, the film will be titled Hello Father.
Plot outline
A few days back, Salman confirmed the project when he said, “We plan to make Hello Father with Sohail Khan as producer. We had made Hello Brother in 1999, so now the sequel will be Hello Father. The director is yet to be finalised but the plot will be on the lines of Back To The Future.”
The subject seems to have attracted the attention of director Vipul Shah as well. His project, based on the same lines, will be titled Action Replay, with Akshay Kumar playing the protagonist.

A close associate of Shah verifies, “Yes, Akshay is doing a film with Vipul, which is loosely based on the Steven Spielberg-produced Back To The Future. The film is an adaptation of a Gujarati play Action Replay which was based on Back To The Future. But the project will roll only after Akshay finishes Vipul’s Singh Is King.”

Akshay is tight-lipped about the project. He says, “Right now, we’re only focusing on Singh Is King. We haven’t finalised any other subject.”

Shelved plans

This is not the first time that Bollywood is toying with this subject. In the early ’90s, Shekhar Kapoor was doing a film with Aamir Khan, Raveena Tandon and Rekha titled Time Machine, which was shelved after a few shooting spells.

“Shekhar was recently approached by UTV to do a film for them. He let them know that he would be keen on doing a film on the same script of Time Machine, but with a 2007 zing added to his original script,” informs a source at the UTV office.

So if that happens, we’ll have three versions of the same subject! Then only time will tell.