Toofan trailer: Ram Charan Teja sets the screen on fire!

Check out the Telugu actor along with Priyanka Chopra in the promo of Toofan, the Tollywood remake of classic Bollywood film Zanjeer

Toofan may be an Apoorva Lakhia film, titled Zanjeer in Hindi, but our glimpse of the trailer tells us it’s a full-on Tollywood style flick with all the masala elements the Southern industry is famous for. Ram Charan Teja is in fab shape as the ACP wronged and sent to jail by the baddies. He comes out vowing revenge and there’s going to be plenty of dishoom-dishoom in the film with more than a few well-shot action sequences.

Prakash Raj promises much in yet another negative character, this time as a bejewelled villain.

But it’s not all about the ACP taking on the bad guys and bashing them up. There’s romance aplenty between Ram Charan and Priyanka Chopra, who plays his wife in the film. The trailer gives you a peek into some steamy love scenes between the two as well.

Toofan is the remake of the 1973 Amitabh Bachchan hit Zanjeer. The new version is modern, slick and fast-paced, and will have Ram Charan’s legion of fans cheering for sure. He is, as the trailer declares, the man who breaks the rules to uphold the law.

Amitabh Bachchan thanks Salim-Javed, Prakash Mehra for Zanjeer turning 40!

Four decades ago when Zanjeer came, it not only rocked the box office, but also changed lead actor Amitabh Bachchan’s fortunes in films and even won him the tag of Angry Young Man

On completion of 40 years of the film, Amitabh Bachchan is ecstatic and thanks every one. Released May 11, 1973, the movie starred Big B as police officer Vijay. It was his first blockbuster after a string of flops and after the Prakash Mehra-directed action-revenge thriller, there was no looking back for him. Zanjeer 40 years of release. Goodness… an entire lifetime, an entire change of my world… (writer duo) Salim-Javed, Prakash ji, thank you,” Big B posted on Twitter.

Before Zanjeer, Amitabh grabbed attention with the 1971 hit Anand, but it was after Zanjeer that he became a star to reckon with and gave hit after hit like Abhimaan, Deewaar, Sholay, Mili, Namak Haram, and Chupke Chupke.

Zanjeer also starred Jaya Bachchan, Om Prakash, Bindu and Ajit and a nostalgic Big B wrote: “I know I repeat the 40 years of Zanjeer … but it just does not leave the system.”

Now Prakash Mehra’s son Amit is producing the remake of 1973 classic, which is being directed by Apoorva Lakhia. Southern actor Ram Charan Teja has stepped into Big B’s shoes. The new version also stars Priyanka Chopra and Sanjay Dutt.