Gadar 2’s Khairiyat has Sunny Deol praying for his on-screen son Utkarsh Sharma, Arijit Singh adds an emotional touch. Watch

Recently, Sunny Deol shared on Kapil Sharma’s show that the film distributors were not very keen on the film as they believed that it would not work. However, the audience loved the film so much that it worked tremendously well. He said, “Jab Gadar – Ek Prem Katha lagi, tab humein nahin pata tha ki yeh film gadar machayegi. People used to say, ‘Yeh Punjabi film hai. Isse Hindi mein dub karo’. Some distributors said, ‘Main toh nahin kharidunga yeh film’. So we did face a lot of issues. Lekin janta ko film itni pasand aayi ki unhone sab ka munh bandh karwa diya! Unhone hi humein himmat di hai ki hum part 2 banayein (When Gadar released, we didn’t know it would be such a hit. People would say, ‘This is a Punjabi film. Dub it in Hindi’. Some distributors said. ‘I won’t buy this film’. So we faced a lot of issues. But the audience loved this film so much, they shut everyone up. They only gave us the courage to make a second part.)”

Gadar was the biggest hit of the year in 2001. The film told the story of star crossed lovers Tara and Sakeena who get separated after Sakeena’s parents take her back to Pakistan. The sequel in set in Lahore during the year 1971 where Tara finds himself in the middle of ‘Crush India movement’. The details of the story are yet to be known.

Gadar 2, directed by Anil Sharma, releases in theatres on August 11.

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