A few years ago, Ramgopal Varma had proposed to attempt a remake of the Michael Douglas-Glenn Close starrer FATAL ATTRACTION with Anil Kapoor and Urmila Matondkar playing husband and wife, and Juhi Chawla as the other woman. The project did not materialise. Ramu started SATYA in the intervening period, starring two relatively new faces ­ Chakravarthy and Manoj Bajpai.

Ramu intended attempting FATAL ATTRACTION again two years ago with Manoj Bajpai in the lead, Sushmita as his loving wife and Urmila as Manoj’s obsessed lover, but somehow the project fizzled out.

However, Ramu was so ‘fatally attracted’ to this subject that he decided to give it a third try. But there’s a change now! Ramu is merely producing the film in association with Venus Records, while his ex assistant, Rajat Mukherjee, is in the director’s seat.

“It would be wrong to state that PYAAR TUNE KYA KIYA is a scene-to-scene copy of FATAL ATTRACTION,” Ramu tells me, adding, “There are definitely some elements of FATAL ATTRACTION, but our film is not about a man who has a one-night-stand with a woman he meets at a party. PYAAR TUNE KYA KIYA is more about a married man who strays. In that respect, I think PYAAR TUNE KYA KIYA is far more complex than FATAL ATTRACTION.”

The story Jai (Fardeen Khan) is a fashion photographer who’s an incorrigible flirt, but also loves his wife Geeta (Sonali Kulkarni). However, Geeta is always suspicious of her husband’s motives. In fact, her suspicion shakes the foundation of their marriage. In the midst of all this, Jai meets a gorgeous model, Ria (Urmila Matondkar), a mildly psychotic woman, and for both of them it’s a fatal attraction.

Ria is a pampered rich girl who always gets whatever she wants in life. But this time she wants something that belongs to someone else.

One fine day, the truth dawns on Geeta that Jai has been cheating on her and is dating Ria. So what happens next? Does Geeta win back her husband? Or did Ria’s fatal attraction wreck their marriage?

So is Urmila attempting a negative role? “The treatment is very humane. I’m sure, the audiences are bound to identify with the characters,” Ramu concludes.

PYAAR TUNE KYA KIYA was shot on the shore areas of Goa. The film, slated for release in April, has music by Sandeep Chowta.