The filmmaker said he plans to re-release ‘Shikara’ next year with its original title ‘Love Letter from Kashmir’.Chopra, also known for directing films such as Parinda, 1942: A Love Story, and Mission Kashmir said even though his debut home production Munna Bhai MBBS (2003) was a box office failure, he believed in director Rajkumar Hirani’s vision.”When Munna Bhai MBBS released, it flopped on day one, no one went to see it.”He wanted to sell it to a south India-based distributor who promised to give Rs 11 lakh for the film.After watching the film he said “Munna Bhai MBBS” won’t work beyond Mumbai’s suburban area Borivali and the deal fell through.”We managed to get one-morning show in a theatre in Tamil Nadu where the film did a business of over Rs 1 crore,” the filmmaker recalled.When Hirani met him a day after the film released, Chopra said he gave him Rs 11,000 But he said, “I won’t take it because the film is a flop”.I told him, “I’m paying you this money for the next movie”.”Eventually, he got Rs.11 lakhs, Rs. 51 lakhs, Rs. one crore and God knows how many crores(as it did well),” he said.”Don’t lose your belief system because the industry will try and corrupt your soul, and say, ‘Do this or that, this is what sells’… “I believed in the film”, he added.
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