How Vivek Oberoi-Salman Khan’s Spat Impacted ‘Shootout At Lokhandwala’ Director Apoorva Lakhia: ‘People Threatened’

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Vivek Oberoi mustn’t have accomplished it: Apoorva Lakhia reveals he was threatened for casting him in ‘Shootout at Lokhandwala’.

Vivek Oberoi mustn’t have accomplished it, says filmmaker Apoorva Lakhia (Photo: A movie nonetheless)

Mumbai: Director Apoorva Lakhia remembers the time when people threatened him to not work with Vivek Oberoi or else there are going to be repercussions. His 2007 film ‘Shootout At Lokhandwala’ featured Vivek alongside Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty, Tusshhar Kapoor, and Abhishek Bachchan amongst others. However, seems to be prefer it wasn’t an easy journey for Apoorva to tug off that casting coup.

In an interview now, the director opened up on how people crticised him for having Vivek on board as a result of latter’s infamous rift with Salman Khan. It was in 2003 that the actor went all out in opposition to Salman in a press conference and claimed that he had often known as him 41 situations and as well as threatened him for all instances. The longing affect of that conference remained endlessly and Vivek late admitted that his occupation was vastly impacted as a result of incident.

In his interview with Siddharth Kannan, Apoorva talked about solely Sanjay Dutt and Suniel Shetty stood by him after he decided to work with Vivek in his gangster drama. The director talked about he had promised the actor and there was no method he was not delivering on his dedication. Besides, he talked about, Vivek was actor and he may need accomplished the mistaken issue nevertheless he deserved to work inside the movement footage.

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Apoorva talked about, “At that time when I cast Vivek, a lot of producers called me and said ‘replace him or we won’t work with you.’ But I had given a commitment to Vivek, so how do you go back from a commitment? And Sanju sir supported me, Suniel Shetty supported me, Sanjay Gupta supported me. So if there guys are supporting me, I thought why should I think about the future? If Shootout became a hit, whoever rejected me will come back.”

Apoorva, who has helmed movement footage like Zanjeer (2013), Mission Istanbul (2008), and Dus Kahaniyaan (2007) amongst others, added that he didn’t hire Vivek for another function nevertheless solely because of he thought of him as actor. Appreciating the actor for his work, he talked about, “But Vivek was a good actor. Whatever he did was wrong, he shouldn’t have done it, but that does not mean he is not talented. I am hiring for his acting abilities. I am not hiring any person for his personality. He is a professional and he was really good when I was reading with him. I think he did a fantastic job.”

Vivek’s personal fight with Salman following his breakup with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan took an enormous expert toll on him. He was just about boycotted by the film commerce and misplaced out on many important movement footage and loads of others had been shelved owing to completely totally different causes. In the following years, the actor, in an attempt to put the earlier behind him, tried to apologise to Salman on plenty of occasions nevertheless couldn’t help it.