Pinkvilla has managed to whip up a minor stir by declaring that Mahesh Manjrekar and Sanjay Dutt are reuniting for a sequel to the 1999 gangster drama Vaastav: The Reality, which is still very much alive and ticking in the public’s mind. Since its release, scores and scores of underworld sagas have dripped their sanguinary violence on screen. But none with the same untameable intensity as Vaastav.
In fact a very poor sequel titled Hathyar: Face To Face With Reality was released in 2002. The sequel was so poorly executed and received that everybody connected to it has conveniently forgotten it.
This is where the “news” of a “sequel” to Vaastav comes in. It is nothing but a marketing gimmick to generate interest in project that has long crossed the line of revival.
Namrata Shirodkar who starred in both Vaastav and its sequel Hathyar expresses surprise at talk of a sequel. “What sequel to Vaastav? Didn’t we already do that in Hathyar? I have no idea where this is coming from.”
