Director Mukesh Chhabra doesn’t know whether he should happy or sad. “As a director, Dil Bechara is my first film. Ideally, I should be nervous excited and happy. But all my joy has been drained by the fact that the person who guided me through the making of this film, without whom I’d have never turned director, is no longer with me. Sushant Singh Rajput should be here, holding my hand to the release. Without Sushan't, everything feels unreal, incomplete.”
Mukesh says as he recalls how he turned director “I’m trying to wade through the process of the film release. All this is new to me. And Sushant Singh Rajput abandoned when I needed him the most. Just talking about the late actor makes me emotional. I called him Beta. He was very close to me and also my mother. He loved the parathas she made. She misses him as much I do.”
“It would have never been possible without Sushant Singh Rajput. When I got the chance to direct a remake of The Fault In Our Stars (Dil Bechara) I agreed only because I knew SSR would be my lead. He did not hear or read the script, for the first time he had ever accepted a film without going through a narration. Only when we reached Jamshedpur for shooting of the film, just three days before shooting was to start he asked for us to go through the script.”
“It is an official remake. So the subject and characters are the same. But I’ve Indianized the original. Now I am waiting to see the audiences’ reaction to the film. I realize it is a big responsibility to make sure that Sushant Singh Rajput’s fans are not disappointed. I hope I’ll succeed in making them happy. I can feel Sushant Singh guiding me. I speak to him when I get very nervous,” Mukesh said about how much the original has retained in his remake.
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