Satyameva Jayate 2 director Milap Zaveri: ‘People who look down upon mass films are fooling themselves’

The director recalled that National Award winner Manoj Bajpayee had once said how starring in commercial films like Baaghi 2 or Satyameva Jayate eventually helps him make movies like Gali Guleiyan and Bhonsle, which are relatively smaller in scale.

 

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The money earned by these big-ticket films, he said, empowers other filmmakers to experiment with content.

“This (massy) cinema can never go away. If we don’t make the films we do and get the money rolling in the industry, we won’t be able to experiment. Other filmmakers won’t get a chance to make something else that they want to. You need commerce to sustain an industry. This year, from ‘Master’ to ‘Sooryavanshi’, it has been proven that people want to see only this on the big screen,” Zaveri added.

Satyameva Jayate 2  features actor John Abraham in a triple role, playing twin brothers and their father.

 

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The filmmaker said having Abraham play three characters in the film was an organic decision, which not only made sense on paper but also upped the film’s commercial quotient by “three times”.

John Abraham was originally supposed to be starring in a double role. “But when I was writing the father’s character, I realized he was the strongest role. So I told John that I can’t take this to any other actor because it is the best role in the film. He immediately agreed. The number of bashing critics will give me for two Johns, they will also do for three. But maybe the audience will clap and cheer thrice as much,” he added.

Produced by T-Series and Emmay Entertainment, the film also stars Divya Khosla Kumar.