Realising Today: Ram Gopal Varma's Shiva 2006!

Ramgopal Varma is remaking his 1989 Telugu film "Shiva," which featured Nagarjuna and Amala. Now, 17 years later, Ramu is back with a 2006 version of "Shiva" in Hindi with Mohit Alawat and Nisha Kothari in the lead.

The film has music by Ilaiyaraja, who had composed the tunes for the original version too. If the original was set amid a campus backdrop, the new version will have Mohit as an honest cop, fighting the corrupt system and the Mumbai underworld.

The film, like its original, is also being dubbed into Telugu as "Shiva-2006".

Says Ramu: "The new `Shiva' will take a look at the law-enforcing system through the eyes of a man who has just finished training in a police academy and joined the Mumbai police."