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Stop remaking old hits

After the unsuccessful remake of DON, producer-cum-director Ram Gopal Varma has remade ‘Sholay’, a blockbuster of 1973, and it proved a disaster.

Time and again Bollywood producers are re-making the old classics and the response from the public is not encouraging to such films. One thing is not digestible that when remaking the old classics is not an easy task, why producers are spending a huge amount on such movies.

S.R. Krishna

Berhampur

The Orissa government has decided to allot about 200 acres of land to Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir Trust for setting up a university for which the group has been asked to pay only Rs. 6 crores.

The market value of the land could be over Rs. 50 crores.

I failed to understand what future benefit the State government had seen in the project that it suddenly decided to allot the vast path of land.

Orissa is a home to thousands of homeless people. Many of them are forced to sleep along the road. But the State government never cared for them. Whenever any issue of displacement would arise, a review meeting would be convened and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik would announce that all wasteland would be disbursed among the poorer sections of society.

But, in reality it never happens. We are at pain to learn that a group that always tries to make life of rich and affluent discipline is being given land at a throwaway price, while the landless are left to lead miserable life all through.

Manas Mishra

Bhubaneswar

The recent developments on the mega steel project of POSCO-India in Orissa are indeed a good news for the investors lining up to set up their plants in Orissa. While the recent visit of the company chief has helped create a favourable opinion in the proposed project site in Jagatsinghpur, the approval of the forest diversion proposal by the Central government has added to the delight.

The company chief also announced that the preparatory groundwork for the project would start in October this year and the plant construction work from early next year.

Local people start looking into the intentions of vested interest groups who have been taking undue advantage by instigating them.

As the real motive of these groups is getting disclosed to the public, their support base is decreasing drastically.

These things are clear indication that the initial trouble period is over and people of Orissa now hope that the industrialisation process would soon come on fast track.

This is real good news as once become operational, the projects would be the harbingers of prosperity and development for the local people as well as the State.

Dinesh Behera

Bhubaneswar

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