Lmao. Priyadarshan would make a comedy where everyone is running around with the money from one room to another, and that is supposed to be funny. Cast: (like the story, is a no-brainer) Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, John, Akshay khanna, Rajpal Yadav.
SLB makes a touching Dostoevsky scale tragedy where one of the kidnappers suddenly feels pangs of conscience and wants to return the money and... the internal conflict he goes through, which symbolizes the external struggle in the world around him. All of this expressed through a sensitive turquoise back ground color, and $150 million.
I'll leave Farha Khan and Rakesh Roshan for other people's imaginations. ;-) Take it away.