Screen Daily has some interesting details on yet another Mira Nair project (thanks, Brimful!)

[Nair] recently acquired the remake rights to an Indian “blockbuster” and has sold them on to an as yet undisclosed Hollywood studio. “It will be the first time there has been a reverse, when Hollywood will buy Bollywood. I’m going to remake it in an African-American context.”

Blockbuster in an African-American context? Maybe Shaft meets Sholay! I can see it now: Will Smith channels Amitabh, Martin Lawrence does Dharmendra. Don Cheadle sneers as Gabbar Singh, Mya dances over rough-cut bling. Instead of ‘Mehbooba Mehbooba,’ we get ‘Girls Dem Sugar.’ And all the motorbike scenes are filmed on a wicked Japanese racer.

I think the reverse is even funnier, Indian ripoffs of Hollywood films. But I hear that’s been done.

Mira, no charge for the treatment. Just send me a couple of points off the back end.