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Who Milap on SJ 2 failure: I learnt are my real friends in the industry
Filmmaker Milap Zaveri’s 2021 release, Satyameva Jayate 2 ( SJ2 ), failed to elicit much response at the box office. A year after its release, he looks back at the learnings and equates a film’s failure to the “death of a baby”. “You are heartbroken. The project is like your child, something which you nurture,” he says.
Zaveri, who had also shared a lengthy note on Instagram, goes on to speak about learning who his “real friends” are. “When you succeed, everybody is your friend. But, people who are with you when you fail, if they keep supporting you, they are true friends,” shares the director, who says actor-couple Riteish and Genelia Deshmukh, actor Shaad Randhawa, producer Bhushan Kumar and actor Manoj Bajpayee are those who stood by him in the past year.
Filmmaking is always a collaborative process, but Zaveri mentioned in his Insta post that he takes “full and solo responsibility” for SJ2 ’s failure. “The screenplay, story and dialogues were mine. I was the director [and] technicians work according to the vision of the director. It was my conviction, as it was a genre in which I had succeeded before, with Satyameva Jayate (2018) and Marjaavaan (2019). Everyone trusted me, right from the producers to actors. I am the captain of the ship,” he says.
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