Johnny Lever discusses Cirkus’ failure, admits there were some mistakes: ‘What can one do about that?’

On Friday, Johnny Lever makes his OTT debut with the Disney+ Hotstar comedy collection Pop Kaun. The veteran first began out doing get up comedy. In his four-decade profession, he has labored within the movie and tv industries as properly. Last yr, he appeared within the Gujarati comedy Jaysuk Zdpayo and Rohit Shetty’s household entertainer Cirkus which didn’t do properly on the field workplace. The comic mentioned the comedy’s rejection by audiences. (Also learn: Rajpal Yadav, Johnny Lever, Saurabh Shukla argue over who’s the baap of comedy. Watch)

Based on William Shakespeare’s play The Comedy of Errors, Cirkus featured Ranveer Singh and Varun Sharma in twin roles. It additionally had a big ensemble forged together with Pooja Hegde, Jacqueline Fernandez, Murali Sharma, Sanjay Mishra, Ashwini Kalsekar, Siddharth Jadhav, Vrajesh Hirjee, Tiku Talsania, Brijendra Kala and Sulabha Arya. Despite many comedy veterans and Rohit Shetty regulars, the movie didn’t join with viewers.

In an interview, the veteran comic spoke concerning the movie’s poor efficiency, “Every director thinks well about the film, nobody wants to do nuksaan (loss) because they invest heavily in the film — money wise and emotion wise, a lot of effort goes into making films. In Cirkus, humne jo kaam ki, humaare part ki taarif huiee (whatever work we did was appreciated).”

He added, “There could have been some mistakes in the film in totality that people didn’t like because of which the film didn’t work. What can one do about that? But one thing I know for sure that people look forward to comedy, people expect it from us all the time.”

Johnny has labored in over 300 Hindi movies, although in the previous couple of years he seems in just one or two a yr. He gained the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role twice for Deewana Mastana (1997) and Dulhe Raja (1998). The veteran was nominated 13 occasions in that class.

His kids, daughter Jamie and son Jessy, have additionally adopted their father into the leisure trade. The father-daughter duo labored collectively within the comedy movie Housefull 2 (2019) and at the moment are starring in Pop Kaun alongside Kunal Kemmu, Nupur Sanon, Saurabh Shukla, Chunky Panday and Rajpal Yadav.