‘Deols Don’t Die’, Anurag Kashyap Reveals Sunny Deol Forbid Dharmendra From Doing His Film

Anurag Kashyap recently saw the release of his film Almost Pyaar With DJ Mohabbat. The filmmaker is out and about recently and spilling several beans from his career. Kashyap in one of the interviews revealed that actor Sunny Deol forbid Dharmendra from working in his film as it reportedly had a story where his father dies on-screen.

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Anurag shared the anecdote while talking about the veteran actor in an interview which ended up unfolding an interesting story.

He told Samdish Bhatia, “Bohot sweet hain aur bohot cute hain. Unse mila tha, film leke gaya tha, career ki shuruat mein, bohot pehle. Bohot khush hogaye, bole, ‘Beta, bohot time hogaya hai mere mooh pe makeup nahi lagaya. Bohot achi kahani hai tumhari, karte hain.’ Phir Sunny ne suni, Sunny ne mana kar diya. Bola, ‘Mere papa yeh film nahi karenge.’ Maine poocha kyun, bola, ‘Deols don’t die’. This is a fact.”

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Anurag was further asked whether he felt bad about the rejection, Anurag shared, “I’m talking way back, in the 90s… Sunny ji humare agle generation ke favourite actor they na… Unhone bol diya toh bol diya. And also, the belief system was such, if the hero dies in the film, the film flops.”

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Do you know Anurag Kashyap was thrown out of Salman Khan’s Tere Naam?

In the same interview, Anurag revealed that he was supposed to direct Salman’s 2002 film Tere Naam. Apparently, when he shared his wish for Salman not to shave his chest, he was shown the doors. Kashyap’s reasoned it as Salman’s character was based in Uttar Pradesh where men are raw in appearances.

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Kashyap recalled the incident when he was arrested in Saudi Arabia for arriving drunk in the country.

He revealed to Bhatia, “There were no flights from Denmark due to volcanic ash. I was very exhausted and I had wine and I went, took the ticket and I had to wait five hours. I went to the lounge and started drinking because I wanted to pass out. I sat on the flight and I passed out. I landed in Saudi, they arrested me because I walked into the land of Saudi totally drunk. They started questioning me. Luckily I had my phone and I sent a text to Ronnie Ronnie Screwala."

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On the work front, Sunny was last seen in Chup: Revenge of the Artist and the three iconic generations of Deols will reunite soon in Apne 2. Anurag on the other hand some cult classics like Gangs Of Wasseypur, Dev D and Black Friday in his name.

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