Ishaan Khatter on ‘Dhadak’: I and Karan were in talks for another film but the subject changed

Bollywood’s newbie Ishaan Khatter, who made his debut with ‘Beyond: The Clouds’, is now gearing up for the release of his second film ‘Dhadak’. Also featuring Sridevi’s daughter, Janhvi, the movie is scheduled to release on 20th July 2018. There has been a lot of buzz surrounding the movie’s story. Well, till now we all have been under the impression that ‘Dhadak’ is a remake of the popular Marathi film ‘Sairat’.

But, the lead actor Ishaan Khatter has a different say or rather one can say he has cleared our misconception. In an interview with DNA, Ishaan said, “Dhadak is an adaptation, rather than a remake.” The actor also went on to say that he is aware of adaptions not working at BO. (Also Read: Dhadak: Its a wrap for Janhvi Kapoor and Ishaan Khatter starrer)

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Further, the actor added, “But it depends on your intention behind directing a film. Director Shashank Khaitan understood that it’s such an important film for our country. Also, it is so easily adaptable to the different cultural milieu that it was important to make this film reach out to more audiences and he wanted to do it his way.”

Ishaan revealed that he had seen ‘Sairat’ before he started the shoot of Karan Johar’s film. Mentioning that the movie affected him, the actor added, “I loved Sairat and was affected by it. I understand the responsibility of all the hopes that come with it. But I prefer not to think about these things when I’m working in a creative environment because it may influence my performance. Since we are adopting it, there’s scope to be different. It’s also been under the public eye, so it had a different journey from Sairat.”

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The actor also recalled how Karan Johar had offered him another project but eventually ‘Dhadak’ fell on his lap. He said “Karan sir wanted to meet me because he had seen some of my pictures and footage and wanted to cast me in a film. He got my number from my brother (Shahid Kapoor), with whom he was co-judging a show and also working on Shaandaar. He met me and we were in talks for another film. But the subject changed. He chose not to audition me and offered me Dhadak instead.”