“Gadar Was Ramayana, Gadar 2 Is Mahabharata”: Anil Sharma Breaks Silence On Taking 10 Years To Send Sunny Deol’s Tara Singh To Pakistan Again

Gadar 2, which was released last Friday, has been making headlines and smashing box office records with success. Directed by Anil Sharma, the film stars Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel in pivotal roles and is a sequel to Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, which was released in 2001. At the film’s success event, the director Anil opened up about the film and compared the first instalment with Ramayana while labelling the second as Mahabharata. Scroll below to read the scoop.

Gadar had a superb opening weekend and has collected over Rs 135 crores at the box office. In fact, it is the second-biggest opener of this year in Bollywood after Pathaan starring Shah Rukh Khan, which was released in January.

Now talking about the latest scoop, Gadar 2 director Anil Sharma spoke about the recently released film at the success meet of the same and why it took him two decades to make the sequel. He said, “What was Gadar? The first Gadar was Ramayana. Rama ji goes to Lanka to bring back Sita. I thought this is Ramayana, this won’t flop because it resides in the people’s hearts.”