Greater than a decade after ‘Raanjhanaa’ first hit the screens, Dhanush is revisiting the movie that marked his Hindi movie debut. Talking at a fan screening celebrating 12 years of the movie, the Tamil star opened up about how shut he got here to strolling away from the mission. Motive? Funds constraints. Regardless of being a profitable actor in Tamil cinema, the workforce behind R’aanjhanaa’ couldn’t afford Dhanush’s payment on the time. “They didn’t have the proper of funds for hiring me because the lead actor,” he recalled. However director Aanand L Rai wasn’t able to let go. He noticed one thing in Dhanush that he wasn’t keen to compromise on—and that perception modified every thing.
Aanand L Rai took the leap
Dhanush revealed that Rai didn’t simply push for him—he personally put cash on the road to carry him on board. “This man’s ardour was so robust… he may have supplied any actor this half and they’d’ve taken it. However he stayed true to his imaginative and prescient,” Dhanush mentioned, remembering how Rai went towards all odds. “He invested his personal cash as nicely. He went all out to solid me.” For Dhanush, the a part of Kundan—a hopeless romantic turned political crusader—was one of the crucial intense journeys he had taken on display. However that journey started with another person’s religion.
I used to be not scared throughout my first movie
Even for somebody with Dhanush’s expertise, ‘Raanjhanaa’ introduced with it a type of vulnerability. “I used to be not scared throughout my first movie. However for the primary time, I used to be scared. I felt accountable. I used to be praying exhausting—‘By some means save this man’,” he shared, referring to Rai. That concern remodeled into one thing highly effective, as Raanjhanaa went on to turn out to be a cult basic. “It’s not the story of Kundan and Zoya. It’s the story of two mad males who believed on this,” he mentioned. The movie, additionally starring Sonam Kapoor, Abhay Deol, and Swara Bhaskar, grew to become a turning level for each Dhanush and Aanand L Rai.