Atlee reveals he got calls from Hollywood after Jawan, has turned down blank cheques in the past because he doesn’t work for money

He added, “Honesty comes with love. I take my time with people and see if we really match and whether I can love them and learn something from them. If someone comes to me and says, ‘Sir, I love you, I love your film. I want to work with you.’ That’s all, I will sign them. That’s my secret of signing films. And if a person comes and says ‘I will pay you this much and here is a blank cheque’, I have said no to a lot of people. You can’t buy me, but you can love me and I can love you back.  Without love, I can’t create anything.”

Six action directors from across the globe got together to execute action sequences of Jawan. Speaking about how their work led to a call from Hollywood, Atlee said, “People who worked on our film were from Hollywood. Action director Spiro Razatos worked with us. So, Spiro and other great director and technicians from  Hollywood were at the same screening of Jawan. And Spiro said I have done action in this film. So, they asked who has done that scene where SRK is engulfed in flames. He said, ‘It was the director’s vision and he executed it.’ So they immediately connected with me and told me, ‘If you want to work in Hollywood, let us know,’ so it isn’t a taste which is very desi. It is something superheroic and it has a very basic rhythm. I thought this idea only works for us but it is working globally.”

Jawan has achieved tremendous success on a global scale, amassing a staggering collection of Rs 957 crore, as of Friday. In the domestic market, the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer has raked in Rs 546 crore, surpassing the lifetime collection of another Shah Rukh Khan film, Pathaan, which collected Rs 543 crore.