Milap Zaveri accepts John Abraham didn’t speak to him for 2-3 months after Satyameva Jayate 2 failure: ‘I am very sad’

Speaking to Siddharth Kanan, the filmmaker expressed his deep sense of letdown, particularly regarding John Abraham’s faith in him as a director. “Honestly, there was a period of about two to three months when he wasn’t communicating. I reached out through phone calls and messages, and he eventually replied saying, ‘Milan, I’m very sad.’ He didn’t say he was upset with me; he said he was sad because he had a lot riding on this film, he was very excited, and he was upset that it didn’t work out, ” shared the director.

Milap added, “He had gone into a shell for a while, but later we talked. I met John, and we hugged it out. John told me, ‘I will do a film with you. I love you; I believe in you as a director. When a great script comes, I will work with you.’ He told me that. But obviously, something had broken. Somewhere, both our hearts were broken because the film didn’t succeed. More than anything, I felt I let him down. I felt I let John down; he trusted me blindly. He did whatever I told him to do. Hats off to him for that. There were some moments when he wasn’t happy; he felt I was going too over the top, that I was making it too cinematic. But he did everything.”

He added, “During the shooting, John came to you and told you, ‘Why are you doing this? It’s too much?’ Yes, a couple of times he had his issues. I have to give him credit; he told me a few things, and I convinced him otherwise. He did what I wanted him to do.”

Satyameva Jayate 2 director also shared how he had clashes with Nikkhil Advani too as their creative visions were different. “For some reason, during that time, Emmay Entertainment, whatever project I was presenting to them, wasn’t happening for some reason. And in a way, I love Nikkhil Advani and respect him a lot, but Nikkhil and I are different filmmakers; we are different kinds of human beings too, right? Nikhil believes in a certain kind of cinema, while my cinema is different. As long as my cinema was successful, everything was great. But as soon as my cinema wasn’t working, I automatically felt like I was the bad apple in the company,” adds Milap Zaveri in his interview.

 

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Zaveri went on to share that post the film’ release he was made to feel that he delivered a huge disaster. “I was 100% made to feel that I had delivered a disaster. It was conveyed to me very clearly, and that’s fair enough. Maybe when I was successful, I behaved poorly or showed overconfidence. At that time, I might not have listened to their advice,” he said.