“Finally, I decided to adapt it. It’s actually a new film. I’ve worked on it for almost a year with the original writer Rumi Jaffery on the screenplay and Farhad Samji on the dialogue,” he added.
David’s “Coolie No 1” released on June 30, 1995.
“Ever since I saw ‘Aankhen‘, I wanted to work with David Dhawan. And when I happened to meet him, I signed him for a film without knowing what it would be,” Bhagnani said.
“Initially, he thought of me as a kid and one day, called me out of the blue to ask if I had seen the Tamil film ‘Chinna Mapillai‘, and that we should remake it. Whatever I have learnt about films over the years is because of Davidji,” he added.
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