JOIN USActor Arshad Warsi says that when films like Kai Po Che and his latest film, Jolly LLB work, they open doors for film-makers who believe in creating such cinema, but are reluctant to do so.
“When people accept such films, it opens doors for good cinema. There are a lot of good film-makers who cannot make their films because they are into this kind of cinema,” the 44-year-old
says.
He goes on to add, “When films like Kai Po Che and Barfi! work — and if Jolly LLB also works — a lot of those writers, who write such movies, will be encouraged to come forward. This is good cinema and should be made.”
Jolly LLB is a satire on the Indian judicial system and Arshad plays a lawyer in the film.
Meanwhile, Arshad explains that Jolly LLB director Subhash Kapoor had initially approached him for the film — even before he took the script to super star Shah Rukh Khan — and then returned to him. “Subhash had thought about this a long time back and he wanted to cast me in it even then. But I couldn’t meet him because of some problem due to my secretary and then he went to Shah Rukh.
But there was some date issue and he came back to me, I heard the story, loved it and said yes,” Arshad recalls. Jolly LLB, which released on March 15, also features Boman Irani and Amrita Rao.