Anil Sharma addresses ‘bade ghar ki beti’ Ameesha Patel’s demand she should go to Pak in Gadar 2, changing film’s climax: ‘Tara Singh pagal hai…’

He added, “She comes from a raees and khandani family. When she would come to our house for rehearsals, she would come wearing solitaires worth crores and in a Mercedes car worth Rs1 crore. I decided to cast her because she was pretty, she wasn’t a very good performer but she learned it and she worked hard for it and she worked for 6 months to become Sakina. And she had that attitude that mostly kids who come from rich family have and that fitted my character.”

Addressing Ameesha’s claim that the climax was changed without her knowledge, Anil said, “If she has that much understanding than she is free to make the film. It’s an open market. Who is stopping her?

Ameesha had earlier claimed that she was verbally informed that her character, Sakina, would accompany Sunny Deol’s Tara Singh to Pakistan to kill the villain. Responding to this, Anil said, “Which actor doesn’t want to increase their screen time but it wasn’t possible in our story. Also, she signed the film after reading the whole story. Is Pakistan a tourist centre that Sunny Deol will take everyone there. Already his son was captured by Pakistani forces and on top of that he would also take his wife? Ameesha’s character would have been a soft target and then Sunny Deol’s character would have gotten trapped. Tara Singh pagal hai kya jo biwi ko bhi leke jaega (Is Tara Singh mad to take his wife to Pakistan).”

When asked whether Ameesha pressured him to change the climax and involved the production studio, Anil said, “That all kept happening—I don’t want to get into that.”