The film ‘Raman Raghav 2.0’ released in the year 2016 became very popular. Nawazuddin Siddiqui played the lead role in the film and Vicky Kaushal also played an important role which became very popular. In the poster of the film, Nawazuddin Siddiqui was shown looking through a telescope made by his hands. This style of his was also liked a lot but very few people know that this style of his was taken from an old film. Nawazuddin Siddiqui was also shown looking through a telescope made by his hands at many places in the film.
This idea came from Amitabh’s film
Very few people know that director Anurag Kashyap had taken this popular style of Nawazuddin Siddiqui from the 1974 film Majboor. This hit film of Amitabh Bachchan and Pran was directed by Ravi Tandon and its story was written by Salim-Javed. In the film, Pran played the character of Michael D’Souza who looks through a telescope made by his hands on different occasions.
Anurag Kashyap had narrated this story
Anurag Kashyap, director of the film ‘Raman Raghav 2.0’, told in this podcast that when Nawazuddin Siddiqui looks through a telescope made by his hands in his film, it is actually taken from the film Majboor. Raman Raghav said, “I think Majboor is a very amazing film. It is one of the best screenplays written by Salim-Javed.” Let us tell you that Majboor is the story of a boy who comes to know that he is seriously ill, then in exchange for a large amount of money, he gets himself accused of murder.
What is the story of the film ‘Raman Raghav’?
Talking about Anurag Kashyap’s film ‘Raman Raghav 2.0’, it is the story of a crazy killer who has committed many murders so far. Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays the character of Raman in the film who finds out that there is a police officer who is investigating the murders committed by him. The story of the film is quite interesting, at the end of which Raman makes this police officer Raghav realize how both of them are quite similar.