As
Vikram
Bhatt's
iconic
horror-film
Raaz
turned
twenty
today,
the
filmmaker
recalled
how
everyone
had
warned
him
not
to
work
with
'flop
hero'
Dino
Morea.
He
also
revealed
that
before
the
release
of
Raaz,
many
people
thought
that
the
film
is
going
to
be
a
B-grade
movie.
However,
Bhatt
proved
everyone
wrong
when
Raaz
arrived
in
theatres
and
took
the
entire
nation
by
storm.
He
told
Hindustan
Times,
"Everybody
thought
that
I
was
making
a
mistake.
The
horror
films,
which
we
watched
before
Raaz,
took
on
the
role
of
a
B-grade
movie,
unfortunately.
People
thought
we
were
making
a
similar
film.
There
was
a
big
producer
who
came
to
me
and
said,
'Kya
yaar,
tu
flop
hero
aur
Ajnabee
(2001)
ki
vamp
ke
saath
picture
bana
raha
hai!'"
He
also
revealed
that
neither
Dino
Morea
nor
Bipasha
Basu
were
the
first
choices
for
the
film.
He
was
supposed
to
make
Raaz
with
Anil
Kapoor
and
Lisa
Ray,
but
things
didn't
work
out
with
them.
Bhatt
revealed,
"After
working
with
Lisa
in
Kasoor
(2001),
she
was
the
first
choice
for
Raaz.
But
she
had
some
personal
issues
because
of
which
she
couldn't
do
the
film.
We
were
left
in
a
lurch
after
that
as
we
didn't
have
a
heroine.
When
Dino
came
in,
he
said,
'Why
don't
you
try
out
my
girlfriend,
Bipasha?
She's
lovely!'
But
I
hadn't
heard
her
name."
He
further
revealed,
when
he
met
Bipasha
for
the
first
time
and
narrated
the
film
to
her,
she
fell
off
the
sofa.
That
made
him
realise
that
she
definitely
is
the
heroine
of
Raaz.
"I
thought
that
if
in
a
narration,
she
can
fall
off
a
sofa,
she's
definitely
the
right
fit
for
Sanjana," asserted
Bhatt.