Vidhu Vinod Chopra on almost choosing to take his own life: ‘The love for my family held me back’

“Most don’t believe it, but many years back, I was supposed to kill myself. I was disillusioned. I was standing on the Lonavala highway, looking at the moving tracks. I was one step away from my death. But the love of my family, and my family held me back,” said the veteran filmmaker, who shared that it happened during the time after Sazaye Maut, and when he was writing Khamoshi.

Sharing that it was this moment that he decided to ‘Zero se Restart’, Vidhu Vinod Chopra added that it was important this story goes out to the world. “People who know me now might be surprised that I even thought of such a thing, or went through this phase. But it is important to say it out loud that it is okay. You are not born this way. You fight your battles. Some you win, some you lose,” said the filmmaker, adding, “The joy is not in the result, but in the fighting.”

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Zero Se Restart, which hit screens recently, didn’t find many takers, and the filmmaker was candid enough to admit the documentary’s failure, and also made a scathing commentary on the marketing and publicity that is ‘spreading lies about box-office collections.’