Ameesha Patel is basking within the success of Gadar 2. However, she revealed in a brand new interview with Bollywood Hungama that she was requested to retire proper after the primary half, Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, in 2001. And the recommendation was by none apart from the maverick filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali. (Also Read: Gadar 2 leaves Pathaan behind with its 10-day assortment regardless of fewer screens, competitors from OMG 2)
Ameesha recounts assembly Bhansali
“Mr. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, after watching Gadar, wrote a really beautiful letter, complimentary letter to me. And when I had a meeting with him, he said, ‘Ameesha, you should retire now.’ I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Because you’ve already achieved in two films what most people don’t achieve in their entire career. Once in a lifetime, a Mughal-e-Azam, a Mother India, a Pakeezah, a Sholay gets made. You had it in your second film. So what’s next?’ I didn’t understand it at that time because I was a kid, so new to the film world,” Ameesha said in the interview.
Bhansali’s warning turned out to be true
She added that what Sanjay said turned out to be true throughout her career as people could digest the success of Gadar because it surpassed that of her dream debut film, Rakesh Roshan’s 2000 romantic film Kaho Na… Pyaar Hai. Interestingly, no other film of hers could surpass the success of Gadar, right till Gadar 2 came along this year. “Gadar set the bar so high that anything in my films that were superhits after that, whether it was Humraaz (2002), Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007) or Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007), it was a straight comparison to Gadar,” Ameesha mentioned in the identical interview.
About Gadar 2
Gadar 2 is the sequel of Anil Sharma’s blockbuster 2001 motion romance Gadar: Ek Prem Katha. It starred Sunny Deol and Ameesha within the iconic characters of Indian truck driver Tara Singh and Pakistani lady Sakina in a cross-border story set in the course of the Partition. The sequel, additionally directed by Anil, sees Sunny and Ameesha reprise their roles after 22 years. The movie additionally stars Anil’s son Utkarsh Sharma as Jeete, Tara and Sakina’s grown-up son.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com