Mumbai: Dhanush and Sonam Kapoor’s romantic drama ‘Raanjhanaa’ will be re-released in theatres on August 1.
However, there’s a twist — Eros International, producer of ‘Raanjhanaa’, has decided to re-release the film with an AI-tweaked climax.
Whether the audience likes the film with a tweaked climax or not will be known after a few weeks, but the news has left the film’s director and co-producer Aanand L Rai fuming.
Aanand, who learnt about the new climax through social media, slammed Eros for not consulting him before tweaking the ending.
“I don’t get it, how can they do this? It’s an ending people have loved! If not the filmmaker, at least listen to the audience. What is a happy ending? It’s a tragedy, that’s an emotion. How can you meddle with emotions? The voice of the film lies in that ending,” filmmaker told SCREEN.
“They say AI is the future. Everybody knows that. But then use it for the future or for the present. Don’t use it to distort the past! If you buy a portrait by an artist, you can add a moustache to it, if you like. But you definitely can’t resell that for commercial gain. Next thing we know, they may change the climax of Sholay (1975) by keeping both Jai (Amitabh Bachchan) and Veeru (Dharmendra) alive,” Aanand quipped.