June 15, 2001, will go down as a memorable day in Indian cinema, when history
was created both on- and off-screen. It was a day when two honest blokes - one
a director whose profile read "a B-grade TV actor and (mis)director of two flops",
and the other a producer-actor whose obsession with perfectionism has always been
laughed off by everybody as bordering on the pathological - finally released to
the world a dream of theirs that was being woven for 5 years.
People had written off the dream before even watching it, because it did not have any of the stereotypes ....