Shahid Kapur to soar high on Cruise’s ‘Top Gun’

Shahid Kapur’s all set to reprise Tom Cruise’s role in ‘Top Gun’. Foraying into direction for the first time, father Pankaj feels that Shahid needs a change of image.

Spicezee Bureau

Mumbai: Shahid Kapur’s all set to reprise Tom Cruise’s role in ‘Top Gun’. Father Pankaj Kapur has taken the baton this time to direct a movie for son, taking cue from the Hollywood hit ‘Top Gun’. The movie’s called ‘Mausam’ and Shahid would be seen in ‘fighter-pilot’ uniform, taking the skies - wrecking havoc upon enemies. Foraying into direction for the first time, Pankaj feels that Shahid needs a change of image. With the looks and semblance of a uniformed soldier, Pankaj is trying to give Shahid a more matured image makeover, after he played roles of an aimless student in ‘Ishq Vishq’, a gangster-social activist in ‘Kaminey’, a struggling dancer in ‘Chance Pe Dance’ and an entrepreneur before that in ‘Jab We Met’ and ‘Vivah’. According to a source, the uniform has virtually been written into the script. Pankaj first toyed with the idea of making Shahid an Army officer. Then it was decided to cast him as an Air Force pilot. The last real big star to play an Air Force pilot in Hindi cinema was Rajesh Khanna in Shakti Samanta’s 1969 hit ‘Aradhana’, which itself was a copy of the 1946 Hollywood film ‘To Each His Own’. Substantially ripped off from Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun’, in which the actor played a Navy pilot training in the US Navy Fighter Weapons School known in the Pentagon as ‘Topgun’, ‘Mausam’ would see Shahid in the same league.