While there is still speculation whether Kareena Kapoor will be doing the Mandakini act and going under the waterfall to recreate the famous scene from Raj Kapoor's Ram Teri Ganga Maili in Milan Luthria's sequel to Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai , something else from the same era (in fact the same year) has already been recreated. And interestingly the common factor is director Milan Luthria.
If you remember Mandakini, you should be certainly aware of another actress from the same time - Kimi Katkar. Like Mandakini, even Kimi Katkar's claim to fame is a similar scene from the film Tarzan that released in the same year as Ram Teri Ganga Maili - 1985. The only difference was that while Mandakini got wet in white under a waterfall, Kimi Katkar did the same but in a pond.
Coming back to Milan Luthria, the filmmaker is presently busy shooting his film Dirty Picture with Vidya Balan, where the actress' role is modeled on the lines of the sex-symbol of 80s, Silk Smitha. Amongst the several scenes that recreate the 80s era is one where Vidya Balan plays a damsel in distress in jungle who is rescued by one Tarzan-styled jungle-boy. Says a source, "A man with good physique and whose looks come quite close to Hemant Birje (the actor who played Tarzan ) is seen rescuing Vidya Balan in a jungle setting. The scene was recently shot in Ramoji Rao Studios in Hyderabad".
However, the makers have avoided the wet-in-white sequence, though otherwise the scene clearly revives memories of Tarzan days. Now we guess if director Milan Luthria can handle the Tarzan sequence so smartly, he can definitely handle the Ram Teri Ganga Maili sequence with as much elegance without offending Kareena Kapoor or compromising on the script.
