Vidhu Vinod Chopra Breaks Silence On Munna Bhai 3 And We’re Excited!
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oi-Swikriti Srivastava
By Pti
Filmmaker
Vidhu
Vinod
Chopra
says
the
team
behind
Munna
Bhai
series
has
zeroed
in
on
an
idea
for
the
third
part
and
are
developing
it
further.
Vidhu
Vinod
Chopra,
who
is
currently
promoting
his
next
directorial
venture
Shikara,
said
the
franchise,
starring
Sanjay
Dutt
and
Arshad
Warsi,
is
close
to
his
heart
and
he
wants
to
start
production
on
the
threequel
as
soon
as
possible.
"I
want
to
make
Munnabhai..'.
I
want
to
make
some
fun
films.
Finally
we
have
something
that
I
want
to
do," Chopra
said
in
a
group
interview
in
Mumbai.
The
filmmaker
said
soon
after
the
release
of
Shikara,
which
is
about
exodus
of
Kashmiri
Pandits
from
the
Valley,
he
will
start
working
on
the
next
Munna
Bhai
movie.
When
asked
if
the
stars
of
the
movie
and
director
Rajkumar
Hirani
will
return
for
the
new
instalment,
Chopra
said,
"It
will
definitely
be
with
Sanjay.
Hopefully
it
will
be
made
with
all
of
them.
I
am
going
to
work
on
it
from
February
10."
"We
have
the
correct
idea
but
we
have
to
work
on
it.
I
don't
know
by
when
it
will
be
made,"
he
added.
Directed
by
Hirani
and
produced
by
Chopra,
the
series
chronicles
the
story
of
an
affable
goon
-
Munna,
played
by
Dutt,
and
his
loyal
sidekick
Circuit,
essayed
by
Arshad.
The
first
two
projects
of
the
series
-
Munna
Bhai
MBBS
(2003)
and
Lage
Raho
Munna
Bhai
(2006),
both
were
directed
by
Hirani.
Hirani's
last
directorial
was
Sanju,
a
biopic
on
Sanjay
Dutt.