The 1982, Mahesh Bhatt directorial Arth features actress Shabana Azmi, late actress Smita Patil and Kulbhushan Kharbanda. The movie was a ground-breaking one during that era and even won Shabana Azmi the National award for her brilliant performance. As per reports, actress Jacqueline Fernandez has been roped in to play Smita Patil’s role in the remake which will be directed by South Indian actress-director Revathi.

 

Arth is the story of a couple that breaks up due to the interference of a second woman. The movie also had a Tamil remake where the filmmaker Revathi played a lead role in 1993. Arth is helmed as a semi-autobiographical film that is claimed to based on Mahesh Bhatt’s affair with the late actress Parveen Babi.