Munna Bhai Was Meant To Be TV Series Starring R. Madhavan: Rajkumar Hirani

Rajkumar Hirani’s collaboration with Sanjay Dutt that gave Indian cinema a cult classic comic series is well-adored by the movie buffs. But the fact is that ‘Munna Bhai’ was originally planned as a TV series and R. Madhavan was approached for the lead role. Things didn't turn as planned and Bollywood welcomed as a breakthrough in cinema.

Rajkumar Hirani told PTI, “Before Munna Bhai MBBS got made into a film, years back I had written it as a series. I wanted to do a serial out of it and that time Maddy (Madhavan) was doing many serials, he was a big star on television and I had approached him and he said ‘I am too busy I don’t think I can do it. If he had agreed Munna Bhai wouldn’t have gotten made as a film”. When Madhavan was asked about the opportunity he had missed, he said, “I always knew it (the film) had a better future”.

Hirani also revealed that another sequel of the series in under process. “Yes we’ve been working on a Munna Bhai script. We have 4-5 Munna Bhai scripts written but they were never as good as the earlier two so we kept them aside. Now we have an idea which is taking shape. Before that I have a biopic on Sanjay Dutt and then we are working on three-four other scripts”, the filmmaker said. 

Source: indianexpress.com