Sanjay Leela Bhansali will remake Satyajit Ray’s Charulata. He has alreadyregistered the title with IMPPA

Sanjay Leela Bhansali has already offended the sensibilities of Bengalis once with his melodramatic version of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee’s quiet classic, Devdas. Now he’s planning to remake Satyajit Ray’s Charulata, starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee. The director registered the title of Charulata in August, 2007, with the Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association.

Informs an insider, “Bhansali has a fascination for highly emotional subjects like these and Charulata has a huge potential of being remade in today’s time.” Only, will he turn Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee’s quiet romance into a high-pitched drama?

However, there is another contender for the same subject. Amitabh Neil Ray also wants to remake Charulata and has planned to title the fi lm, Charu: Unspoken. Ray, reportedly, wants to make a modern version of the fi lm and wants to set the fi lm in America.

Even as Bhansali and Ray aspire to remake the fi lm, Satyajit Ray who