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Anupam Kher’s film Tanvi the Great released in theatres on the same day as Yash Raj Films’ Saiyaara. While Saiyaara — directed by Mohit Suri and starring newcomers Aneet Padda and Ahaan Panday — went on to become the biggest hit of the year, Tanvi the Great got “wiped out” in the Saiyaara storm. During his recent interaction at the latest edition of Expresso, Anupam admitted his film’s failure and shared how it got replaced in theatres by the Mohit Suri film. Speaking with Anant Goenka, Executive Director, Indian Express Group, Anupam said, “I worked for four years on this film, one year of writing, one year of music. I wrote and directed the film. We released the film on the same day when Yash Raj Films’ Saiyaara was releasing and it got completely wiped out. It depressed me. It made me feel very sad, not just for myself, but for the new actor, whom I took from my acting school, and almost 200 people worked on the film.”
Anupam revealed that his film had run into financial trouble, which forced him to turn to his friends for support. “The financer of the film ran away a month before it’s release. It’s a costly film. So I called my friends who are doctors, lawyers, etc. They gave me the money. We did the world premiere at Cannes Film Festival. We went to New York where Robert De Niro saw a film till interval, and he thought it was good. We also showed the film to the President of India.”
He went on to say, “Everything was going fine, but the world wanted to see a love story and rightfully so. Young, teenage love story had not come for a long time and the system here is that even if you’re releasing the film in 400 theatres, but if the other film is doing very well, they will remove your film. So it was a failure which was very heartbreaking for me.”
Later in the session, when Anupam was asked which film’s success surprised him the most, he responded, “Saiyaara. Even Aditya Chopra must have been surprised by it, everyone was surprised but theek hai… thank God Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra are part of my family, I grew up in cinema with them. If it was somebody else it would have been very painful.” According to Sacnilk, Saiyaara had minted Rs 569.75 crore at worldwide box office.
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