Raaj Shaandilyaa On Vicky Vidya  Ka Woh Wala Video

Just days before release you had humbug litigation  claiming that your  film was  a copy?

Har Taj Mahal bante hi kuch nakli Shahjahan apna haq jamaane aa hi jaate hain…humne legally reply kiya hai.Iss Taj Mahal ke majdoor bhi hum hain aur Shahjahan bhi hum

After two back-to-back hits with Ayushmann Khurrana, why Rajkummar Rao?

I wanted to work with Rajkummar from the beginning, you know, I am a big fan of him and his character, that is, Vicky’s character in this film, seemed more like him to me than any other actors, so I felt that this is Vicky from a small town who loves a girl, it’s a story of 1997, so I found him a better fit in it and that’s why I felt that no, Rajkummar will be the best for it.

Your film has been released  with Jigra?

 Yes Sir, Jigra is with us and I am a huge fan of Alia Bhatt . I really want to work with her and I am very happy that both the films are released on the same day and my best wishes are that the audience gives a lot of love to both the films . They are different films. Our film is  a comedy.Theirs is a revenge drama and action.So I want that film to do very well, people should love that film and our film, both the films are good for the box office, it is good for us as well and I will be very happy if  both the films do very good business.

Do you feel laughter to  be the need  of the hour?

I have been doing it since the beginning, the industry has been doing so much comedy.Even today when a child is born, he is born crying,  and he  grows  up looking for laughter. So comedy films should be made, more should be made as today people want to watch comedy films.I have been doing comedy for a long time, so I feel that making people laugh is a big job and I should be able to do whatever I can to bring laughter into our lives . People feel that if it is comedy then it becomes an easy task but I don’t think that there is anything tougher than comedy.

Are you working with  Ayushmann again?

 of course I have to work with him  and I am also writing something for him , as soon as it gets completed, let you know and after two back to back, this is the third one without him, after this I will go there again.

How  do you manage to do comedy without sleaze?

 Actually, sir, I always try not to write something that the family cannot sit and watch,

there are some things which we can do in today’s society, but we cannot do it in front of our family members or relatives, we cannot show it in a movie, so I always try to reach out to people in a very light way by adding a comic element to it.

Your film has been marketed  well?

 I don’t know about marketing, I do that too, I know about karma, so I work very hard. The  film gives us a new thought, which perhaps has not been shown before, and it is a good comedy, it has a good message, there is a responsibility for the youth, this is not just that kind of movie in which people just laugh and go away.Every year many people commit suicide and give up their lives, they suffer loss in many ways, so it was very important for such a subject to reach the people and whether it reaches through music or through dialogues, whether it is our city tour or our interviews, it was very important for this thing to reach the people because this is a very serious kind of comedy.Over the years there have been many such cases where someone’s video gets leaked, someone’s CD gets leaked, someone’s MMS gets made, you know, it has happened a lot in the film industry as well, it has happened a lot in other areas, in DPS school, that too, what happened with Pamela Anderson and her husband, so there have been a lot of such cases of leaked  videos.