Anwer Khan happens to be an erstwhile assistant director of Manmohan Desai, of the lost & found syndrome, which had become so popular in the bygone millenium. 3 years ago, to be precise in the year 2013, he had made his debut as an independent director with Four Two Ka One, not to be confused with SRK’s One Two Ka Four. And now he is ready with his upcoming directorial venture Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gaya which is on the verge of releasing very soon.
How about giving us your brief introduction?
I am a total Bombaiyya man. I was born in Kalyan. And all my life I have been living in Thane. After finishing my studies I started hunting for work and ended up being the assistant director with Manmohanji and my height of foolishness was when I had left Manji in between and after realising my own folly I went back to him requesting him to take me back. And hats off to him that he graciously accepted me back in his fold and then I ended up assisting him in scores of films till the end.
So how much of Manmohan Desai style can one see in your upcoming film Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gaya?
I have made my entire film Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gaya totally inspired by Manmohan Desai school of film making. The stamp of his film making will be seen in most of the frames, especially in the intermission point.
You made your debut as an independent director in the year 2013 with a film called Four Two Ka one and now your upcoming directorial venture is Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gaya in 2016. Why this long gap?
The main reason is that I am very choosy. Being a trained director of Manmohan Desai camp, I did not wish to tarnish his name by doing any & every film. In fact I heard many stories in between but none of them touched my heart. So I was waiting for the right kind of film to come my way. But ultimately after waiting for almost 3 years I decided to pen down my own script and the end result was Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gaya and this time around I have also penned down 3 beautiful lyrics for the same.
Really Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gaya I mean what is your upcoming film all about?
Well! Nice way of putting up your query. So Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gaya is all about an identical twin named Man & Mohan. Man has gone to Thailand in search of a job and out there he has an altercation with a younger brother of a don named Mack and to top it he takes a selfie of the altercation and sends it to the don. But then his friends advise him to go back to Mumbai to avoid the wrath of the dreaded don. While Manmohan also has a showdown with a big wig person and he in turn rushes to Thailand to avoid his wrath. And then starts the rollercoaster comic ride. Which will definitely leave the audiences in splits in the darkened aisle of the cinema halls.
What according to you are the highlights of your upcoming film Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gaya?
I would say that the 1st & foremost highlight of Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gaya is Arbaaz Khan as the most dreaded don Mack. In fact he has been most gracious enough to shower me with my career’s best compliment as a director. He has gone on record to state, “None of the directors of Bollywood has given me a role like Anwer Khan in his film Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gaya, in fact none of them have succeeded in tapping my right potential as far as my acting skills are concerned. I would really like to say that Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gaya can be termed as the best comeback film of my career as an actor.” And coming from Arbaaz Khan an accomplished actor, producer & director, of Dabangg 2, in his own right, really Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gaya.
