at the end of the film i said which character you want me to play Makhi or Chulbul he said i want you to play
Makhi so i said why not Chulbul so he says no Chulbul ah i have somebody in mind i have Irfan Khan
or may be Randeep Hooda in mind to do it
Abhinav and me we had some professional differences and all that stuff that's when i told Salman
I said see this guy is not doing it so and we should make a squeal now and i am beyond
convincing so he said let me pickup the phone on him
i got baptised by fire because after that day the second day i tore all the story boards i said kuch nahi
hona wala hai ye ill have to work according to what he is gonna move
so among the 3 Khan brothers he is possibly the calmest and the most restrained one or may be that's just a facade
today we have Arbaaz Khan today joining us on Pinkvilla welcome Arbaaz how have you been
i have been fine i think the last time you interviewed me was like sometime back yeah 3 years ago i
met you enough number of times in the last 3 years but we never sat you know we never actually
did an interview in the last 3 years that's right
you know it took 7 years to come up with the third part the first one and the second part had
a difference of 2 years if i am not wrong that's right ah not many people actually know that Dabangg
was not supposed to have Salman Khan it was actually offered to you first you were offered Makhi's
part if i am not wrong yeah and that time Salman Khan was not there when i was supposed to hear the
narration from Abhinav Abhinav said just give me 40 minutes just near the subject so i started
listening to it i kind off liked it very much at the end of the film i said which character you want me to play
Makhi or Chulbul he said i want you to play Makhi so i said why not Chulbul so he says no Chulbul
ah i have somebody in mind i have Irfan Khan or may be Randeep Hooda in mind to do it i
think you should play Makhi and i said why Makhi then he said because saw Jane Tu Ya Jane Na and
i thought you were every good in that little comic kind off a character Makhi's character is very
similar to that its a mand budhi a stupid guy sometimes you know he can be funny sometimes
and he is very emotional so i think you seeing that i feel you should do this character and i had
Salman in mind the moment he said i want Chulbul i am looking for somebody then i felt its a story of
two brothers so if i play one brother i think Salman would definitely be good to play another
brother and i was already in my mind somewhere subconsciously wanted turned into a producer or a
director i looked at this as an opportunity and i said you know lets do this film and i told Salman Salman
got excited though it was a little dark at that time it needed to be tweaked around it had no songs you
know when you are making these smaller films you need it to be good bold which Salman and that image
you couldn't do that so we took another 6 8 months to re work on the scripts introduce the song obviously
there a lot of resistance from my direct that how can my central character sing i said he will sing Salman Khan
in the film he will sing
when you were making the second part you directed it why didn't you direct the third part why
did you have Prabhu Deva so honestly i had no intention i had not thought about directing it it fell
into my lap because of circumstances and how it happened is that when Dabangg 1 was getting
completed Abhinav and me had some professional differences and all that stuff and in one of very
nice way we parted away but it so happened that Dabangg 1 became such a big hit and that was
a time of franchises and we wanted to make another franchise now we just felt even though we have
certain differences its the right thing to approach him only to direct it because he came with
the idea it was his story he directed it it was not fair you know to hijack the project and you know do it
by ourselves we approached him i approached him i had a very good rapo with him even after all
that and even after all that when i came with this proposal he very categorically said that give me
sometime 10 days latter he sent me a long sms gave me a whole load of reasons why he is not keen on
doing the film and how he would'nt want to work with us or whatever that's when i told Salman this
guy is not doing it and so we should make the seqeal now and i am beyond convincing him and he
said let me pickup a phone on him i remember Salman picked up the phone and tell him i would
say drill some sense or logic into him but he was very adamant that i don't want to work i don't want
to do it so fair enough you don't want to do it the came who would do it so names came up this one that
one i wont take the names but few prominent peoples names came up and Salman why are we looking
at these names this is why i said why don't i direct it toh i have been very closely associated with the
film right from the scripting to the music to the casting i have seen one film happening i said I've
been working in films for past 20 years i have a fair understanding about what the film
is what the audience want second one second also ill have to work on the writing the casting
and everything and i was assisting in past i was with Bhatt saab for about 3 films i did when i was starting
my career and i said become a producer is eventually become a director so i think if i have to take
plunge this will be the best time to take the plunge he said are you confident can you do it i said ill
do it ill need time but ill do it he said you do it and i worked on it and god willing there was obviously
the stress you know of matching the first success in terms of monitory success it was bigger
yeah so we did that so god has been kind and kept my head high when the third was happening it
happened in a very short moment of time yeah and at that point of time i was very engaged with a
few things some in my personal scenario some in my professional scenario and i knew
when third is happening and though its coming after a long time it needed a lot more attention and
focus which at that point of time i was not read to give also i believed may be a fresh look would be
better somebody who comes with a fresh perspective sometimes on film second film third
film you can get very you know you can be very ideating in a different way you need somebody
you know give that little zing
you know also talk about Salman sir he has himself said that with directors who he knows like who are
not family or producers who are not family its easier for them to handle him than the family members
do you think its difficult for you to handle him on the set
i agree with that i agree with that i feel ke there is some sense of manipulation that can happen with
friends and family which doesn't happen with those because those people i guess they know how to
manage Salman so you know main film bana raha hoon toh script puri jake production design
pura konse location pe shooting hori hai toh camera man ke sath art director ke sath edit director
ke sath decide karke ke scene kya hai story boarding's so till the interval i had done story boarding's
i have them i can show it to you so i am like lets go prepared and lets do all of that so i had 40 shorts the first day
Salman allowed me to do all those 40 shots that i had and i got them all to the tee the next day when
i go on the set he said what are we shooting so i said this scene i said i have hit up so we gonna do this
portion he says yaar can we do it like this so i said we have lit up for all of this and we are doing this
and you want to change i feel we should tweak this we should tweak this i said now what so he says
lets do it like this i said but that will change everything so he said yeah but its okay so i got baptised
by fire because after that day the second day i tore all the story boards i said kuch nahi hona wala hai
ye ill have to work according to what he is gonna move so if he's gonna do this so i have to be ready
with my team chalo thike abhi ye shift hoke yaha ayega ye dialogue ye nahi hoga ye dialogue
iska hai ye idhar chala gaya iska dialogue udhar chala gaya ye short yaha nahi hoga waha hoga and
i learnt the hard way so all my preparations went for a toss and thinking i am going very
smooth but i kind off liked it yeah because you know somehow i feel because of all that um this is
one character that he owns its like Chulbul Panday is Salman Khan and everybody says it um
i hope you don't take too much time in coming up with a part 4 i know this for a fact when you make part
2 you knew what the basic story line of part 3 would be is there a plan to put the 4th part
yeah yeah so we will surely not take as long as we took for between 2 and 3 there were reasons
for that i think Salman had also as a star had become big and he had you know far more commitments
now what is Dabangg and what is Chulbul Panday its one character playing that role you
have to also take into consideration that you cannot like see franchise like a James Bond you do
3 parts with somebody and the change the actor the franchise still remains the same the age of
the character still remains how you wanted to be he doesn't become younger or older it
stays stuck in time okay but when you do a Rocky or when you do a Rambo or when you do a
Munna Bhai and you have got this one particular actor playing that then you have to you cant
delay because you know or because that same actor also has to play it you know no other actor
when some other actor can play when Salman is done with this may be 5 years or 10 years go i
don't think you can replace that's what i am saying if at all 5 years or 10 years go may be
at that time a current actor wants to re do the same that may be a possibility or otherwise you
just let this character or this franchise lie
all the best for the film and because this is one film that i think many people have been waiting for
and off course we are all going to watch it first day first show alright then take care see yaa bye
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