"I really need to prove myself beyond the (Munnabhai) series. Otherwise, my well-wishers will turn around and ask, 'Can he do anything else?' But, of course, Sanju, Arshad and I have a responsibility to carry forward the series."
"But Lage Raho... wasn't a sequel. It was an independent film. Thank god, critics saw this as an original script. But I need to get away from these two guys. I must say Sanju and Arshad worked very hard. In M.B.B.S they had a readymade script to rely on. In Lage Raho, the script went through changes right till the end. Sanju's contribution was immense."
The next Munnabhai film too will be written by Abhijat Joshi and produced by Vinod Chopra. "Let me be in my comfort zone at least in these areas," he laughed.
Hirani is delighted by the impact of his Lage Raho....
"This one really surprised me. A couple were in dispute about buying a flat because according to the expert it wasn't the correct location by the rules of vastu shastra. After seeing the film, the couple decided to give the vastu angle the slip and decided to buy the flat. I don't think the first film had this kind of impact. People are saying Lage Raho... has gone far beyond M.B.B.S."
"I wasn't scared of writing Munnabhai M.B.B.S, But writing Lage Raho..., where I had to bring in Mahatma Gandhi, was scary. What saved Gandhiji and my film from getting stressed was the humour. You know Gandhiji was a very humorous man. But still I took a big risk in doing a film where Gandhi was a character."
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