Little did Prince know then how generally his projects' impact would spread, or the courses in which they may interpret literally. Three decades after the film initially debuted, it got a remake recorded in Niger, featuring individuals from a nomadic group of people known as the Tuareg.
It's called Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai which means Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It. That is because there's no word for purple in Tamajeq, the dialect talked by the Tuareg.
Like the original, this adaptation of Purple Rain, coordinated by Christopher Kirkley, recounts the narrative of a guitarist and musician who fights his musical adversaries, his conservative father and in the long run, his own ego. Those battles are just as resounding in Niger's desert group as they were in Prince's Minneapolis. Over few decades, an energetic new music scene has blasted among the Tuareg. Bootlegged cassette tapes of artists like Dire Straits and Jimi Hendrix have been exchanged and remembered over the Sahara.
Kirkley expressed that this guitar-based, intensely soul affected music is presently basically pop music for the Tuareg group.
Local star Mdou Moctar plays the Prince part. And in the end he knocks his adversary in a battle of the groups. Moctar's show-stopper sounds somewhat not the same as Prince's, though. Also different is the risque love story of the 1984 original goes through a few changes with performing artists from a traditional Muslim background.
Kirkley says they clearly couldn't do a kiss on the screen. They even had issues with a hug. And they were convinced that perhaps they can simply end the film with the two of the characters embracing and said no. The remake is presently playing the film-festival circuit, but he's still waiting for one individual in particular to purchase a ticket.
Kirkley added that they haven't heard from Prince yet. They are still expecting that if and when they do, it's a positive experience.
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