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Backing another regional fare, Riteish Deshmukh draws comparisons with South market that supports homegrown movies
Riteish Deshmukh
It is easy to see that these factors came into play when Deshmukh decided to advance the release of the Saiyami Kher-starrer to December 14 - the actioner was to initially clash with Shah Rukh Khan's Zero on December 21.
"Shah Rukh is a dear friend. Zero is his production house's biggest film. Similarly, Mauli is the biggest film under my banner. When Total Dhamaal was postponed, I realised that we had a window to advance the release of Mauli; it would work in favour of both films as the screen count would no longer be divided and we would get a clear run of one week. We are happy to move our film."
His upcoming release is an actioner, a genre that hasn't been fully explored in Marathi cinema. He reasons, "2.0 was made on a budget of over Rs 500 crore, but no one would have imagined this kind of an investment, few years back. Similarly, a Marathi film is made on a particular budget, and this genre is an expensive affair. But, things are looking promising."
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