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He has complete control over his body and he allows his body Firstly a good script. It has to be good lest you have a flop
to feel what he wants to. Tiger is very talented, great dancer. in your lap. Next is production design. The film should have
He does action just like any Hollywood action star would do. great production values, so that it looks great. Lastly the
He is a great human being too. film’s promotion. Here’s a catch too. Cutting a smart promo
is a challenge. What is to be revealed is of utmost important. I
Your father has been longest serving CM of Maharashtra. have seen great films bombing because of bad promo and bad
Are you going to make a biopic on him ? films succeeding because of a smart promo. It’s a risk every
It’ll be a great story to tell about a rise from a village ‘sarpanch’ producer has to face.
to a powerful Chief Minister. In face quite a few writers have
sent me scripts on his life. Once I thought of making it but gave You recently announced a movie on Chhatrapati Shivaji
up the idea because a biopic should be engaging and gripping Maharaj.
for two hours otherwise it becomes boring for audiences. I On Chhatrapati Shivaji’s birth anniversary, 19th Feb, I have
think it is not easy. Because I have always been close to my announced trilogy on life and times of Chhatrapati Shivaji
father I am bound to lose objectivity. There are many books Maharaj. There are three people involved right now. I, director
available on Vilasrao Deshmukh which could be read. It’ll be Nagraj Manjule and music composers Ajay Atul are in sync
a great idea if we family members gather together to discuss with the project and want to give something different and
him. It’ll be wonderful to know various points-of-views within exciting to the audience. It’s going to be a bilingual initially,
the family. Hindi and Marathi, but as we plan a pan-India release a few
more languages will be considered. We are concentrating on
You are a producer yourself. What’s your take on film the first part right now and will announce details later. (Riteish
promotions ? avoided to commit that he’ll be reprising the role of Maratha
In earlier times a poster used to be put up on a theatre and Warrior). We plan to start shoot this year end.
people would know which film is releasing. ‘Poster lagta tha
aur picture chalit bhi thi’. But in recent Currently a lot of
times arithmetic has completely sequels are being
changed. A producer behaves like made. How about your
a ‘Dulhan ka Pita’. He doesn’t want marathi blockbuster
anything to go wrong which’ll ‘Lai Bhari’ being made
affect collections. As for me there in hindi ?
are three things to be Lai Bhari’s story
worked upon as is written by Sajid
a producer. Nadiadwala. He should
get the credit for Lai Bhari’s success. Actually he was to make
it in hindi casting Salman or Akshay, but it went on back burner.
Hindi rights are with him.

Talking of Baaghi and ‘Bagavat’ (rebellion), did your family
object to your marriage to Genelia ? Did you think of
rebellion?
There was no opposition from my family for
my marriage. If I had to do ‘bagawat’
I would have ran away with her.
(Laughs)

When will you and Genelia work
together ?
Even I want to do a film with her. She
did cameos in Lai Bhari and Mauli. Whenever we sit together
and I broach the subject and she says ‘let’s make a Tik tok
video’. (Genelia and Riteish’s Tik Tok videos are trending)
She’s hooked on Tik Tok and I keep telling her to come
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