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When Arshad Warsi forgot ‘Circuit’…

Munnabhai and Circuit are coming back and this time, with a whole new adventure. The film Lage Raho Munnabhai which will be the next episode of Munna and Circuit’s quest is releasing this September. Though director Rajkumar Hirani is extremely happy with how the film has turned out, he definitely had a roller coaster ride while working with the dynamic duo Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi. Apparently, Arshad goofed things up a couple of times, which left the director standing on the edge of a mountain cliff.

On the very first day of the shoot, they were shooting a scene at the dhobi ghat. This was same dhobi ghat where Arshad Warsi and Sanjay Dutt sat in Munnabhai MBBS, chatting about their problems. This scene too was very much the similar.

So everything was set. The crew was ready to start rolling the second episode of Munnabhai. Director Rajkumar Hirani was also excited about working again on the concept that won millions of hearts. He shouted ‘ACTION!’ and Sanjay Dutt started saying his lines. Sanjay did it exceedingly well and then lines came to Arshad. Now, when Arshad said his first line, he didn’t sound like ‘Circuit’ at all. He was not even close to the character of ‘Circuit’. He sounded like ‘Arshad Warsi’, speaking with an accent. He continued 4-5 lines like that. Raju Hirani then called for a retake but still Arshad couldn’t do it. They did some five retakes but he was still the same. Hirani then went to Arshad and had a chat with him. He informed Arshad about how he was not sounding like Circuit. Arshad then turned to Hirani and asked “How was Circuit?” To Hirani’s shock, Arshad had completely forgotten how he had played ‘Circuit’ in Munnabhai MBBS. The Munnabhai team tried to remind Arshad but the attempts were fruitless. Arshad said that he plays a character and then forgets about it. The crew then had to stop the shooting. Rajkumar Hirani cancelled the shoot that night and gave Arshad Warsi a DVD of Munnabhai MBBS. Next day he saw the film about three times, and then he came on the sets. The director was still nervous thinking whether Arshad will pull it of or not. But he did. Arshad finally got it right and ‘Circuit’ came back. Sanjay Dutt then later told Hirani that he had also seen the film about 8-9 times before coming for shoot, just to get into the skin of the character.

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