Calling Cirkus‘ failure a ‘learning experience’, filmmaker Rohit Shetty said that he isn’t the kind of person who gets hurt, and believes in analyzing and moving on.
Rohit Shetty’s comic caper Cirkus headlined by Ranveer Singh was one of the most awaited films of 2022. Unfortunately, the film failed to meet the expectations of the audience and tanked miserably at the box office. In a recent interaction with a news portal, Rohit said that the film’s failure didn’t hurt him as he is not that kind of the person who gets hurt.
The director-producer told Bollywood Bubble, “It didn’t hurt me. I’m not that kind of a person who gets hurt. You get disappointed when you work hard on a thing and it doesn’t work. But then you analyse and move forward.”
He further explained, “You can’t be an escapist. If I’ve made Sooryavanshi, then I’ve also made Cirkus. If Chennai Express I’ve made, then Dilwale also I’ve made. Even Dilwale didn’t do that kind of a business nor Chennai Express. But I think that is meant to happen. The best part is you can’t be in a denial. You can’t be like it didn’t do because of this or it didn’t do because of that. Somewhere you had gone wrong. And if you like a man, you say this and analyse it and sit with your team and the team also says that you we all went wrong somewhere, let’s move forward and get into the next one and work hard. I think that’s life because ups and downs are part of life and you learn from your failure. We have never been an escapist and as I said if Chennai Express was my film then Dilwale was also my film.”
He called Cirkus’ failure a ‘learning experience’ and elaborated by saying, “If Sooryavanshi was my film a year before when you opened the theatre and you give the biggest hit with 50% capacities, then with everything going right with audience coming to the theatre, when you give a film which doesn’t do well that also belongs to me. I will not deny that thing. Yes, we went wrong and there’s nothing wrong in it.”
He further recounted Anupam Kher’s wise words to him and shared, “Events fail, people don’t fail’.
Inspired by William Shakespeare’s famous play ‘The Comedy Of Errors’, Cirkus tells the tale of two sets of twins, separated at birth, who find themselves stuck in chaos owing to mistaken identity when they land up in the same city. The film also features Varun Sharma, Jacqueline Fernandez and Pooja Hegde.
Rohit Shetty’s upcoming directorial is Singham 3 which marks his reunion with Ajay Devgn.
