18 years of Sarkar: When Amitabh Bachchan expressed shock over the inclusion of Govinda Govinda track

Ram Gopal Varma said, “I’ll tell you something very funny about (the film). When I first made Mr Bachchan listen to the ‘Govinda Govinda’ theme in Sarkar, he looked at me as if I’d lost my mind. He asked, ‘In our film, where did Govinda come from and he didn’t understand what that line meant.”

The filmmaker added, “I said, ‘Sarkar is a Govinda or Sri Krishna kind of a character. He has all the tricks up his sleeve and doesn’t let people know what he’s thinking and I thought it was the right representation for the soundtrack of your character.’ Some nonsense I told him! In reality, it’s a track I used in a Telugu film of mine called Govinda Govinda (1994), starring Nagarjuna and Sridevi. I loved the score so much that I was looking for an opportunity to use it once again. That’s the only reason I put it (in Sarkar).”

Sarkar also starred Abhishek Bachchan, Kay Kay Menon, Katrina Kaif, Tanisha Mukherjee, Supriya Pathak, Kota Srinivasa Rao, and Anupam Kher.