Madhur Bhandarkar’s film Chandni Bar completed 20 long years, and the filmmaker once joked about the film saying that it was made on a small budget, even small than what he spent on KKK’s costumes in Heroine.
Talking to ETimes, he said, “It was very risky. People even had a problem with the title of the film. Many thought it was very cheap, and a B-grade title. I researched the film for about six months. When I approached producers for it, they wanted me to put some item numbers in the film, which I didn’t want to.”
He added, “My first film did not work, so there was a lot of pressure on me, but I was hell-bent on making the film the way I wanted to. I made the movie on a very small budget. So much so that I once jokingly told Kareena Kapoor Khan that I had made ‘Chandni Bar’ on a budget that was smaller than what I spent on her clothes in ‘Heroine,’” as quoted by Koi Moi