Click to play videoMumbai: Billu Barber may have run into controversy just before its release but on the day itself the Billu brigade looked at east in London.
However, the attack on Friday morning at Shah Rukh’s home seemed to weigh on the superstar’s mind.
“I would like to tell the youngsters that throwing bottles full of kerosene while the people are watching movies etc is at best illiterate. I think we are a modern country; we are a modern state and a modern city. No one in the film industry makes a movie with an attitude that oh wow I will deride so and so,” says Shah Rukh.
For the lead pair of the movie, Irrfan Khan and Lara Dutta, the film is very important.
It is Irrfan's first lead in a mainstream Bollywood production and the initial reviews have been positive.
“It was a great experience, completely different experience because of the smoothness of the operation, the way it happened, the way it came to me,” says Irrfan.
For Lara, this is the first big release after a year and it seems that her sari clad simple look seems to have gone down well with the critics.
“The film was offered to me when I least expected it. And, Shah Rukh was so convinced that I would turn it down so he really prepared it really well,” say Lara.
The film has been released with 61 prints in the UK and 75 in the US. This is the first film since 26/11 to have had a simultaneous release in Pakistan.
The team feels that Friday and February 13 will be lucky for Billu.
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