The remake of one of Rajesh Khanna’s biggest hits Aradhana will take a little longer than expected, as producer-director Ashim Samanta intends to turn the original story of an airforce pilot and his lookalike illegitimate son into a modern-day Top Gun.

Explains Samanta, “When my father made Aradhana, he couldn’t shoot at an air base and the scenes had to be fudged. Those were times when permission to access defence-related locations was impossible for filmmakers. Now, we will shoot at air force bases. It was something my father couldn’t do and it remained a lingering regret.”