Zayed Khan says he felt his flop Blue was ‘Fast & Furious ka baap’ while reading script: ‘We spent Rs 100 cr on it, Kylie Minogue sang’

“If you’d read the script of Blue, you’d have felt ye Fast & Furious ka baap hai (this is superior to Fast & Furious). It was fantastically done, and I felt Blue is really going to break all barriers. With that cast — Akshay, Sanju, Lara, and Katrina — I felt it’s going to go in the direction of a franchise,” said Zayed on Siddharth Kanan’s podcast.

Produced by Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision, Blue starred Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Lara Dutta, and Zayed, with Katrina Kaif in a cameo. With large portions shot underwater, the film bombed at the box office. “The failure surprised me because I don’t think we caught the script like how it was written. I had told Anthony. You can shoot amazing things and feel like a badshah (king), but when you don’t stitch the narrative correctly with thehrao (poise)… the action scenes can be done well without even a fist being raised, it can all be in the screenplay. There was a difference between cup and lip, of how that should’ve translated on screen,” argued Zayed.

Blue was indeed intended to be a franchise as D’Souza had even revealed his plans to make a sequel titled Aasman in 2012. However, Zayed hinted that there were creative differences between the cast, particularly Kumar, and the makers on the sets of Blue. He said, “I wouldn’t want to say because there were some creative differences between people on set, but doesn’t that happen all the time?”

Zayed also revealed that the makers left no stones unturned while making the film. “We’d spent Rs 100 crore then, it was unheard of. And I have to say they did a fantastic job at the production, with the best of action directors from Hollywood and Kylie Minogue coming in,” recalled Zayed. The popular Australian singer crooned the dance song “Chiggy Wiggy” alongside Sonu Nigam in Blue, and also featured in the song alongside Kumar.

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Zayed’s parallel between Blue and Vin Diesel’s long-running blockbuster action thriller franchise Fast & Furious may remind one of the time when Varun Dhawan compared his film, Rohit Shetty’s 2015 romantic saga Dilwale, to Christopher Nolan’s 2010 cult sci-fi thriller Inception. Later, he clarified he was joking about the same.