/> Though the coloured version of Naya Daur hasn't been as big a success as Mughal-e-Azam which on release three Diwalis ago, bedazzled audiences across the country, the producers of Naya Daur are all set to colorize many of their most well-known classics.

"After Naya Daur we'll now colour our other black-and-white classic Gumrah which was originally released in 1963. This will be followed by a coloured version of my father B.R. Chopra's 1958 classic Sadhana," informs Ravi Chopra.

Interestingly Gumrah about an an unfaithful wife (Mala Sinha) and her clandestine trysts with her lover from before marriage was remade two years ago by Dharmesh Darshan as Bewafaa.

"Better the coloured versions than the remakes," says Vyajanthimala who features in Naya Daur and the soon-to-be-re-released Sadhana. "I very honestly feel remakes miss the spirit of the original. I much prefer our old classics to be technically updated.

That way a new generation wakes up to the original without any creative tampering. Give me a coloured version of a classic than a remake any day. I just don't like remakes," the actress ends with a resolute laugh.

However many learned sections of the film industry feel black-and-white classics cannot be tampered with.

"I wouldn't want to see coloured versions of Guru Dutt's Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam or Bimal Roy's Bandini or Sujata," says Gulzar.

Rituparno Ghosh who made one of the rare black-and-white Indian films in this millennium (Dosor in Bengali) feels every film has its own mood and colour. "You can't fill the colours of the rainbow into a summer sky."