The second day of Vinod Chopra’s Film Festival with an ‘In Conversation with the Cast & Crew’ turned out to be a great surprise. Vinod Chopra along with Rajkumar Hirani, Sanjay Dutt, Dia Mirza and other members of the supporting cast of Munna Bhai MBBS and Lage Raho Munna Bhai came together to talk about the film.
The conversation was moderated by Sriram Raghavan who seemed pretty intrigued with Vinod Chopra films. The evening started off with Rajkumar Hirani & Sriram Raghavan sharing some of their college memories.
Boman Irani and Arshad Warsi, who shot to fame after the fist film in the series, surprised everyone with their entry. Rajkumar Hirani spoke about conceiving the idea behind both the Munnabhai series. Rajkumar Hirani also spoke about how he came up with the idea of hallucinating Gandhiji in the movie. Gandhiji was constantly remembered throughout the conversation. Dia Mirza added her inputs and was also seen complimenting Vinod Chopra Films.
Boman Irani also expressed his love for both films and added that hearing the script made him teary. Vinod Chopra even said that he did not expect the term ‘Gandhigiri’ to become such a huge rage, and explained that he had just replaced ‘Gundagiri’ with ‘Gandhigiri’.
Did you know?
Sanjay Dutt was initially offered the role of ‘Zaheer’ (Jimmy Shergill) before Munna Bhai.
Many scenes from both Munna Bhai MBBS and Lage Raho Munna Bhai were actually taken from real life incidents.
