Third Installment of Munnabhai All Set to Hit the Floors, Delayed Only for Sanjay Dutt’s Biopic: Arshad

Mumbai: Munnabhai-famed actor Arshad Warsi on Thursday told reporters that the third installment of the Rajkumar Hirani directed series in waiting for Sanjay Dutt’s biopic to go on floors.

“That (starting Munna Bhai 3) is an issue as Raju (Hirani) has to start the Sanjay Dutt biopic and it is getting pushed ahead. Until and unless he (Hirani) decides he wants to do Munnabhai part three first and then the Sanjay Dutt biopic… if that happens then we will go first,” Arshad said.

While the first two parts of the Munnabhai-series saw accomplished both by regular viewers and critics, the audience are now waiting for the third part to get hooked with.

The Munnabhai-series includes two films- Munnabhai M.B.B.S (20003) and Lage Raho Munnabhai (2006). The key roles, Munna, aka Murli Prasad Sharma and Circuit, were made everlasting by Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi.

Reports are that the biopic of Sanjay Dutt was scheduled to release on June and is now postponed to next January. However, Warsi paid no heed to the rumor that he and Dutt won’t be seen in the third part. “I don’t think it will happen. I doubt,” he added.

However, the confusion on release dates of both of the films is due to Dutt’s jail sentence in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. The actor came out of jail in February this year and started working on the pending films.