Cinematic super-hit history repeats itself !! After Dharmendra vs  Gabbar in Sholay(1975) now its Sunny Deol vs Hamid in mega-super-hit Gadar 2 ( racing towards Rs 300 Cr)    By  Chaitanya Padukone

In the iconic blockbuster-hit film Sholay (1975)   superstars (Amitabh and)  Dharmendra were pitted against a relatively new actor Amjad Khan who played the dreaded sadistic dacoit Gabbar Singh. Now after 48 years again in showman Anil Sharma’s latest blockbuster super hit Gadar 2  (all set to cross Rs 300 crores),  it is  (Dharmendra’s son) Sunny Deol is pitted against a  sadistic menacing Pakistani Army Major General Hamid Iqbal played by relatively not-so-known but excellent actor  Manish Wadhwa. In Sholay, it was Dharmendra strangling the neck during a fight scene and in Gadar2 produced by ZEE Studios  it is Sunny Deol who is choking the neck of Manish’s character,

Showman director Anil Sharma  has frankly shared on record that he and writer Shaktimaan was basically inspired by Ravana-Rama-Sita situations from Ramayana and  Arjun’s son Abhimanyu's famous ‘Chakravyuh’ situation (during Kurukshetra battle) from Mahabharata epic.

In real-life Manish Wadhwa also a famous voice-over and dubbing actor is a very fun-loving gentle family-loving man. Manish who was previously seen in Pathaan ( there again he played a Pakistani Army General Qadir )  also as a voice-over actor and known for his brilliant performances in mythological and historicals as scheming Kans-mama and manipulative Chanakya.