Ajay Devgn, alongside together with his co-stars Tabu, Rajat Kapoor, Shriya Saran, Ishita Dutta, and Mrunal Jadhav launched the trailer of Drishyam 2 in Goa on Monday.
Here, the actor spoke about how making a sequel to Nishikant Kamat’s directorial was not pre-planned.
He mentioned, “Nobody thinks of making a sequel when they’re making the (original) film. It is when the audience shows it love, keep it fresh by rewatching it on OTT and satellite that one decides that it is time for a sequel.”
Drishyam is the official Hindi adaption of Jithu Joseph’s Malayalam movie with the identical title starring Mohanlal. In 2015, when the Hindi Drishyam directed by Nishikant Kamat launched, it was nonetheless consumed as a recent movie as a result of the Malayalam movie was not accessible on streaming platforms on the time. On being requested if within the age of audiences consuming authentic movies on OTT, there’s nonetheless marketplace for adaptions and remakes, Ajay mentioned, “The film has been treated in a different manner. Lots of characters have been added while keeping soul of the original characters and the film is intact (different from south film).”
Ajay additionally took the chance to recollect filmmaker Nishikant Kamat who handed away in 2020. Ajay mentioned, “We all miss him. It would be nice if he was here with us today, we would have been very happy, but the show must go on.”
Tabu, who performed Inspector General Meera Deshmukh within the 2015 movie, spoke in regards to the impression of her function within the movie and known as it one of many hardest roles of her profession.
Photos from the trailer of Drishyam 2:
(Photo: Varinder Chawla)
(Photo: Varinder Chawla)
(Photo: Varinder Chawla)
“I don’t think this character is loved by everyone. People have hated her in first part. As Ajay said we miss Nishi (Nishikant Kamat), how he made the journey of first part so easy. I miss Akshaye (Khanna) today. He takes off from where I left from part one,” mentioned Tabu.
Drishyam 2, directed by filmmaker Abhishek Pathak and produced by Kumar Mangat’s Panorama Studios and Bhushan Kumar, is scheduled to release in theatres on November 18.
