in a variant of sholay and ram gopal verma venture into what can be call an unknown territory where the blockbuster take a new shape . the thakur go south . mohanlal a narsimha the police inspector whose family have be kill seeks vengeance madrasi style . the accent be totally south indian in contrast to thakur from the north . the severing of the hand of thakur by gabbar be also cut down to the finger in aag . so make up cost be cut down because there be no effort to hide the hand instead only a long shouldered kurta cover up for the cut finger . moreso in the climax where the thakur use his leg and saystere liye to mere paer hi kaafi hai here narsimha use his finger stub to fire a gun and kill the villain . babban and the new avtar of gabbar be also different . he be not from bihar or up . he be bambaiya . gabbar infamous laugh be also in two instalment this time and be more subdued . babban ask for diwali instead of holi and romance urmila the replacement of helen in mehbooba . he also dance and enjoy dance with abhisheh who play jalal agha in mehbooba . babban be more intelligent this time . he toss the apple and ask the question that make isaac newton discover law of gravitation . basanti be more verbose than the auto driver ghungroo . nisha kothari can not play the auto driver and look too artificial use word like entertain and too much with gay abandon . viru be fun whereas ajay devgun be a misfit for the role . the god speak to basanti incident and the shooting lesson and the koi haseena song and the water tank sequence be painful . the water tank turn into a well and the drunk devgun be so bad in the sequence that the audience would have want him to commit suicide . jai be compose and serious . prashant raj be well than the others because we do not expect anything from him . but he also bungle on the mausi sequence . he be not as romantic a jai with the mouth organ . jaya role play by sushmita change career . a pure housewife turn into a doctor this time plunge into full time social service after her husband be kill . she too lack the pain that jaya displayed . her flirtation with jai be more open this time . samba get a big role this time a tambe . he do not have to point gun and answer question of gabbar this time . he follow babban wherever he go and be a bodyguard with more visibility outside the den . horse give way to jeep and auto . the gabbar hideout here keep change and ramgarh becomes kaliganj . all in all it be more of a spoof than anything else . rgv come up with his own interpretation of the classic . but we remember the original so well even after three decade that our mind refuse to accept stylized version and change dialogue . so we call it a spoof . so mr. rgv ( sholay ) and farhan akhtar ( don ) and jpdutta ( umrao jaan ) stop making remixes and start make original .