Comedy films of all time from "Golmaal" franchise was made very unexpectedly. Rohit Shetty shared that amazing experince.
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00:00 Rohit Shetty is a director who started giving credit to his entire team, Rohit Shetty and team
00:07 and later many other filmmakers adopted it.
00:11 He is trying to build his own pop universe and he has quite succeeded in it
00:16 with movies like Singam, Singam Returns, Simba, Suryavanshi and the upcoming movie Singam Again.
00:23 But he is famous for the hilarious comedy films he served to the audience through the Golmaal franchise.
00:30 This film happened very unexpectedly and became a hit.
00:34 But do you know the story behind it?
00:36 Rohit Shetty opened about his cinematic journey in the latest podcast with Bharti TV.
00:42 There he told the entire behind story of Golmaal.
00:45 He said that Golmaal was made for survival but later became a cult.
00:50 Rohit Shetty's first film, Zameen, was a flop and therefore he decided to make a thriller with Ajay Devgn
00:58 under the banner of Sri Ashutosh Vinayak's Cinevision Productions.
01:02 A famous director and writer, Neeraj Vohra, met him during that process.
01:06 He called him and said, "Tereko ek kahaani sunao?"
01:09 Of course, how would he say no to such a renowned artist?
01:13 Then Neeraj Vohra told him the story of a play which he had done in Marathi and Gujarati earlier.
01:20 And that was the story of Golmaal.
01:22 But the full name of the movie was
01:25 "Komedy film hai, theek thak chali jaayegi, career set ho jayega, wo hit ho gayi, kabhi socha nahi tha, wo banayi thi survival ke liye."
01:33 But after the release, it got tremendous response from the audience and became a cult.
01:38 Ajay Devgn and Sharman Joshi's roles were fixed in the movie
01:42 but they were not getting anyone for Madhav's character.
01:46 And suddenly, Raj Mehta, producer, called him saying Munnabhai's shooting has been postponed.
01:53 And this is how Varsha Dwarsi joined the team.
01:55 Even Lucky's character was quite difficult as there were no dialogues.
02:00 Both Rohit and Tushar Kapoor were tense.
02:03 How would it work?
02:04 But later the character became a cult.
02:07 And today, there are four parts of this franchise scene we enjoy a lot.
02:11 Golmaal, One and Limited, Golmaal Returns, Golmaal 3 and Golmaal Again.
02:17 Thank you.