Gangster, MD
Last March I wrote about a great Hindi movie, a comedy called Munnabhai M.B.B.S., which is something of a remake of Rodney Dangerfield’s Back to School. Well, the circle is now completed with director Mira Nair having bought the rights to make the Hollywood remake of Munnabhai.
I have actually bought the remake rights of Munnabhai MBBS, my dear friend Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s wonderful blockbuster last year.
… I have sold it to Twentieth Century Fox. I am producing this film, an African-American version of the film. It’s going to be called Gangster MD. And I hope to have Chris Tucker.
… it will again be a confluence of African-American and Indian actors, something I did more politically in Mississippi Masala with Denzel Washington, but now with a comic vein. So that’s the new kind of marriage that I am interested in, where Hollywood is buying Bollywood in a way.
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start. I’ll start with the timeline of the story. What on earth took them so long? This story was broken by this website on December 1, 2004. This blog refers to it on January 18th, 2005. A flurry of activity erupts on April 14th, 2005, like here and here and here. And for heaven’s sake