on then i started shooting a film with sunny deol called ghulami in 2004 it was a period film based on 1857 the first war of independence and it was to be made in a grand scale the way it was envisioned it would have been of a greater magnitude than jodhaa akbar we wanted to release it in 2007 on the occasion of the 150 years of independence we had put up a set worth rs 70 lakh we shot for just three days and the producer ran out of money so thus my film with sunny was shelved but yes because of my humiliating experience with govinda i was apprehensive to approach stars i got to know shah rukh during the shoot of mani ratnams dil se and i am sure if i had approached him with a script he would have heard me out whether he liked the script or not is a different matter altogetheryou are working with priyanka chopra and imran khan in milan talkies did you find it difficult to convince them both of priyanka and imran had seen saheb biwi and paan singh with their respective families and although it was not an immediate yes they eventually put their faith in me many times even if the script is nice a lot depends on how much confidence the actors have on the director i am glad that my work is finally doing the talkingyrf films distributed charas how come you never worked with aditya chopra yes way back in 2004 aditya had a story idea about indopak relationship and asked me to develop on it i wrote it till interval and it shaped out quite well however in the meantime a lot of movies on similar themes started releasing and this project was shelved