Anubhav Sinha opened up recently in an interview about the making of Shah Rukh Khan’s ambitious super-hero film Ra.One and what went wrong with it. Anubhav felt that there were some people in the film industry who wanted Shah Rukh to fail with the film.
In an interview with Lallantop, Anubhav said that during the film’s second week run in theatres, he realized that it wasn’t doing business as it should. "I believe that there were people in the film industry who wanted Shah Rukh Khan to fall. I have been long enough in cinema to understand that kind of a feeling in people. But yeah, when Shah Rukh Khan conceded that the film flopped, it was heartbreaking because I betrayed the film, and his trust on me. I couldn’t deliver a film that he could be proud of,” he said.
Anubhav said that Shah Rukh was very open in terms of the budget of the film. “He is above money. In fact, he doesn’t care about it at all. Of course, I heard it was somewhere between Rs 90-120 crores, but I didn’t know the exact number. I lost control of the film.”
He admitted to not being competent while working on the film. “Ra.One was a bad film, that’s why it didn’t perform well. The script was bad. The editing was bad. I would correct a lot of the film, except for the music and the VFX. I still believe the core story was good, but the film’s ambition to appeal to everyone, and every section of the audience, proved to be detrimental.”
Ra.One released in theatres in 2011 and was among the most-awaited films of that year. The film received mixed reviews upon release and didn’t perform as expected at the box-office.