24 years of Ek Rishtaa: Suneel Darshan recalls, "The success and appreciation for Jaanwar strengthened my conviction in strong emotional human drama" 24 : Bollywood News - Bollywood Hungama

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Filmmaker Suneel Darshan’s Ek Rishtaa: The Bond Of Love completed 24 years yesterday on May 18. Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Karisma Kapoor, Mohnish Bahl, Juhi Chawla and Rakhee Gulzar, the film was an emotional family drama. Suneel Darshan looks back at the film in an interview with us.

24 years of Ek Rishtaa: Suneel Darshan recalls, "The success and appreciation for Jaanwar strengthened my conviction in strong emotional human drama"

24 years of Ek Rishtaa: Suneel Darshan recalls, “The success and appreciation for Jaanwar strengthened my conviction in strong emotional human drama”

The success and phenomenal appreciation of viewers for Jaanwar strengthened my conviction in the genre of strong emotional human drama. And with Akshay Kumar being keen to collaborate with me for a long cinematic journey ahead, I narrated him the story of Ek Rishtaa which would be our next venture together.

The casting of Amitabh Bachchan was beyond my dreams and I’m truly thankful to him for his participation. It was my third venture with Karisma Kapoor as the leading lady and such a pleasure to have Juhi Chawla & Raakhee ki come on board. A special mention to the phenomenal composer-team of Nadeem-Shravan & Sameer for its wonderful score. The rest is all known to you. But one more thing.

Ek Rishtaa continues to be a relevant and timeless movie-experience because it’s positive emotions are as true as the learning’s from life.

It wasn’t a part of my plan to assemble top-line stars but guess, some things are planned up there. The entire process of filming was so smooth that we shot the entire movie in four months, except for Juhi’s portions which were completed after her first baby’s delivery.

His expressions conveyed the awe his character had towards his father.

The similarities with K3G were coincidental, yet the subjects were totally different. I prize my family film on the subject level while Yash Johar uncle’s was truly an elaborate star-spangled extravaganza!