After years of release, the filmmaker Anubhav Sinha has spoken openly about his film ‘Raavan’. Shah Rukh Khan’s superhero action film became very popular among the audience at that time. However, the box office collection of the film has been quite disappointing. Kareena Kapoor also shared screen with Shah Rukh in the film. While the songs of the film are still on people’s minds the story has somewhere fade away.
Anubhav Sinha
Now Anubhav Sinha has told why the film could not do wonders at the box office. Anubhav Sinha in a recent interview said that Shah Rukh gave his best for ‘Raavan’. During the Mashable India podcast with Mukesh Chhabra, Anubhav Sinha said that when he met Shah Rukh and the topic of this film released in 2011 came up between them.
Anubhav Sinha
Anubhav Sinha said, ‘I told him that I am so attracted to you and a director should not be attracted to his actor. I am from Varanasi. Sanjay Dutt was a star even before I came into films. While making ‘Dus’, I used to call him ‘Sanju’, then Shah Rukh became a star in front of me, he came to Mumbai almost at the same time as me. Then when he started becoming a star, I also became his fan.’
Anubhav Sinha
The director further said, ‘By the time I worked with him, he was a big Shah Rukh Khan and I always wondered how people can have access to a star like him? By then mobile phones had come and one day I messaged him that I had a story that could only be made with him. Dus had released then and maybe he would have liked it.’ Let us tell you that when the film received negative reviews in Diwali 2011, it became the target of malicious campaigns. The negativity grew so fast that no one in the Hindi film industry was answering his phone calls, the filmmaker recalled. Anubhav said, “After Raavan, people stopped answering my calls. Everything was over, when it was released in 2011 it did a business of around Rs 150 crore, but it was a bad thing for me, I didn’t know how to make a film. No one in Mumbai would answer my calls, I had no work. This went on for five-six years.”