Anil Kapoor says his Bollywood colleagues made snide comments about Tom Cruise, said ‘woh baat nahi hai’ after Mission Impossible 4

He added, “I was very fortunate when I did (Ghost Protocol), and when I spoke to my then colleagues, they said ‘Nahi nahi yaar, woh baat nahi hai.’ I said, ‘Pata chalega aapko.’ Now everybody’s a fan after Top Gun: Maverick.”

Anil mentioned that he encouraged his Bollywood friends to take up international projects, but they declined, stating they are happy working in India. The actor said, “I told them ‘International kaam bhi karo,’ they said, ‘Nahi hum India main theek hai.’ Later I realised that everyone secretly went to Los Angeles, everybody went to Netflix and Amazon.”

Anil played the role of Brij Nath in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. The film was among the highest-grossing Hollywood films of 2011 in India. The actor had earlier revealed how he bagged the film. 

In an interview with PTI, Anil said, “I had met the producers of the film and met Tom Cruise, the star of the Mission Impossible films, and so I thought let me go and meet them and if I’m lucky I might get a part in this incredible franchise and then I forgot about it. Then one night I got this e-mail from my agent who said there was this offer from Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol where I have to play a womanizer, and of course I jumped at it.”