thalapathi redux

If you commit blasphemy, I say, commit it well.

Without actually casting against the grain (!), keeping both pure acting chops "and" box office commerce in mind

if you had to re-imagine Thalapathi (1991) without losing its essence, point, idea (obvious and not-so-obvious), and most importantly, try to recreate the onscreen magic (very very intangible), cast the following

Anushka Shetty Subbalakshmi

Srividya Kalyani

Siddharth Narayan Arjun

Prithviraj Sukumaran Devaraj

and

NTR Jr. Surya