Sajid Khan is known more for his controversies than his films. His name came into the limelight even more when allegations were made against him in the MeToo movement. Sajid has given many big films including the Housefull franchise. His genre is to make slapstick comedy. Today is Sajid’s birthday.
Apart from ‘Housefull’, Sajid has made films like ‘Himmatwala’ with Ajay Devgan and ‘Humshakal’ with Saif Ali Khan and Riteish Deshmukh. But he also made a horror film in his career which was a flop at that time but is a cult classic film today.
Sajid may not have received special accolades for his films, but at the beginning of his career he had made a horror film which was rejected by the people at that time. Sajid wanted to make this horror film as a trilogy but it could not happen because people did not like this film. The name of the film we are talking about is ‘Darna Mana Hai’.
‘It is necessary to be afraid’
This film, released in the year 2003, was an anthology horror film, that is, it had many small stories in it. The film was directed by Prawal Raman. The film did not get any special response from the people. After this came the year 2006, where Ram Gopal Varma, considered the emperor of horror films, made a sequel of this film which was named ‘Darna Zaroori Hai’. This is also an anthology horror film. Ramu had given a chance to about 6 new directors in this film.
What was the story?
The first story of the film was by Sajid. Manoj Pahwa worked in it. The story was about a man who does not believe in ghosts and despite being refused every time, goes to watch the movie via the graveyard. An interesting thing is that the film that Manoj Pahwa’s character goes to watch in the theater is the film ‘Darna Mana Hai’ released in the year 2003. Like the previous film, this film also had a huge star cast, but the film did not perform well, however, today it is seen as a cult classic film. Sajid was also the writer of this film. He wanted to make it a trilogy by making a third film with these two films, but because the film did not do well, he dropped the idea.
