Director of Rakeysh Ocompash Mehra has sent a massive hits such as ‘Rang de Basanti’ and ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’, but the failure of ‘Delhi-6’ hit him hard.
Abhishek Bachchan’s essay and Sonam Kapoor lead in this entertainer released in 2009.
In his autobiography, strangers in the mirror, filmmakers have revealed that he was in a dark place for six months.
Post film release.
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He had written that after Monday after film release, the audience had disappeared from the theater and he questioned the BOX OFFICE BILLY starting a series of conflicting thoughts.
Rakeysh Oomphachash Mehra stated that he had the threat of death and ‘go deeper and deeper into the dark hole’.
He drowned himself in alcohol and wanted to ‘drink himself to death’.
The filmmaker added that he became careless and was not sensitive to the people he loved most.
Rakeysh Oomphachash Mehra is currently in sunbathing in the success of the release of OTT ‘Tofaan’, which starred in Farhan Akhtar and Mrunal Thakur in the lead.
Talking about working with Farhan again after ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’, Rakeysh Oomprakash Mehra has told Etimes, “” Over time, I came to learn that you were an actor or not an actor.
I always saw an actor in Farhan and I did offer it a role in ‘Rang de Basanti’, almost 16 years ago.
At that time he felt amused and did not occur to him that he would act one day, at least he did not share, and said, “No, I haven’t thought about it”.
He read scripts and even responded, not as an actor but as a friend.
So, for me, there is an actor in him.
But how deep can we dive into him and come out of what we want? I think he is deep as the ocean and increasingly in you, you find more profound.
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