The Munna Bhai franchise is frequently included when discussing the best Hindi films of the last 25 years. The films are remembered for numerous reasons, including their beautiful storytelling and social messages, but most notably for the everlasting companionship between Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi as Munna and Circuit.
Arshad Warsi on Munna Bhai 3 in works
While talking to SCREEN, Arshad Warsi finally got candid about Munna Bhai`s third instalment and revealed that the filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani has been actively working on its making, “See, with part 3, the thing is that once it was not happening at all, but now Raju (Rajkumar Hirani) is actually working on it. He is seriously working on it, and it seems like it should happen now.”
Arshad Warsi further opened up about his tight bond with Sanjay Dutt. He shares an anecdote from shooting Munna Bhai with the actor, “Sanju is just mind-blowing. He is a different kind of talent altogether. It used to be so much fun just being with him. And let me tell you, I’m somebody who is very bad with remembering the entire script and the larger storyline of the film. But for Sanju, I had to remember the entire story just so that I could remind him. Because every day he used to show up and ask ‘bro what are we doing today?’ and then I used to tell him that we are doing this scene today, we did that scene yesterday, the scene preceding is that one, the one that follows has this and so on. And he used to be like ‘Kya yaar’. But it was a wonderful experience, and what happened on screen was magic.”
Arshad Warsi on Bollywood taking risks
Arshad had recently shared his views on how Bollywood hasn`t been taking much risk on films, in a chat with India Today, he said, “Saiyaara worked beautifully, despite releasing at a time when superhero-ish films were dominating. It was just a regular love story, but it worked because they took a chance. No one expected that. Two new actors, a simple love story — and yet, it connected.”
When questioned if Bollywood is losing ground to the South owing to a lack of rooted storytelling, he responded that a “movie works when it`s good” and that “genre doesn`t matter.” He gave the examples of Kantara and Saiyaara.