Karan
Johar's
2019
film
Kalank
was
a
colossal
disappointment
at
the
box
office.
Despite
a
star-studded
cast
including
Varun
Dhawan,
Alia
Bhatt,
Aditya
Roy
Kapur,
Sonakshi
Sinha,
Madhuri
Dixit
and
Sanjay
Dutt,
the
period
drama
failed
to
impress
the
audience
and
critics.
Recently
in
a
tete-a-tete
with
Bollywood
Hungama,
writer-actor
Hussain
Dalal
who
penned
the
dialogues
for
the
film
wondered
if
he
is
responsible
for
the
failure
of
this
big-budget
film.
Speaking
about
how
he
internalizes
a
film's
failure,
Hussain
told
the
news
portal,
"The
thing
about
success
is
that
you
wake
up
the
same
person
in
the
morning.
I
wake
up,
I'll
have
my
chai,
read
the
newspaper...
Success
is
very
intangible.
You
can't
see
it;
it's
only
for
the
world...
I've
felt
failure,
when
a
movie
goes
down."
He
further
talked
about
how
failure
can
affect
an
artiste,
he
explained,
"For
me,
a
big
film
went
down
two
years
ago;
Kalank
went
down.
And
the
sense
of
responsibility
you
feel,
that
maybe
you
ruined
it,
that
your
writing
was
so
bad
that
people
couldn't
watch
the
film.
Failure
is
a
more
tangible
emotion
for
an
artiste.
Success
is
always
in
the
perspective
of
others...
Success
is
never
for
the
artiste,
it's
always
in
retrospect.
Failure
is
a
great
teacher,
it
makes
an
artiste..."
Hussain
told
Bollywood
Hungama
that
after
experiencing
failure,
he
sensed
a
hesitation
as
he
was
convinced
that
he
had
ruined
the
film.
He
wondered
if
Kalank
would
have
worked
if
he
had
penned
down
simpler
dialogues
and
said,
"I
learned.
I
went
overboard
with
the
poetry.
Perhaps
if
I
had
simplified
it,
I
could
have
communicated
better.
Kalank
was
so
personal
to
me,
such
a
beautiful
story,
I
take
full
responsibility
for
maybe
having
ruined
it
a
little
bit
with
over-poetry."