Munnabhai makers are ready to wait for the real Munnabhai
11 April 2013 3:29 AM IST
Filmmakers Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra, makers of the popular Munna Bhai franchise, say they will wait for the real Munna Bhai Sanjay Dutt to come out of the prison after serving his sentence to make the third film.
Sanjay, who is due to surrender for serving his sentence in the 1993 Mumnbai blasts case, has also expressed a desire to return to forthwith return to the Munna Bhai once he is set free.
‘Just two days back Sanjay called and said, ‘It’s tough to be in prison but I’m ready to go there because when I come back, I will experience freedom in its true sense. I will be rid of this monkey who has been sitting on my back for the last 20 years and scaring me’. When I walk out of prison, I want to walk straight onto the sets of Munna Bhai, Hirani and Chopra said in a joint statement.
Hirani and Chopra, who made Munnabhai M.B.B.S, (2003) and Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) with Sanjay in the lead, are ready to wait.
The 53-year-old actor, who has films like the Zanjeer remake, Policegiri, P.K. and the next Munna Bhai instalment in the works, was charged with illegal possession of arms and sentenced to six years in jail in 2007. The Supreme Court 21 March handed him a reduced term of five years.
Hirani and Chopra said the government can show some leniency towards the actor.
Sanjay, who is due to surrender for serving his sentence in the 1993 Mumnbai blasts case, has also expressed a desire to return to forthwith return to the Munna Bhai once he is set free.
‘Just two days back Sanjay called and said, ‘It’s tough to be in prison but I’m ready to go there because when I come back, I will experience freedom in its true sense. I will be rid of this monkey who has been sitting on my back for the last 20 years and scaring me’. When I walk out of prison, I want to walk straight onto the sets of Munna Bhai, Hirani and Chopra said in a joint statement.
Hirani and Chopra, who made Munnabhai M.B.B.S, (2003) and Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) with Sanjay in the lead, are ready to wait.
The 53-year-old actor, who has films like the Zanjeer remake, Policegiri, P.K. and the next Munna Bhai instalment in the works, was charged with illegal possession of arms and sentenced to six years in jail in 2007. The Supreme Court 21 March handed him a reduced term of five years.
Hirani and Chopra said the government can show some leniency towards the actor.
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