Randeep Hooda expresses disappointment over lack of support to Swatantrya Veer Savarkar: 'Only my family, my wife, and...'

Actor-turned-director Randeep Hooda’s recent release Swatantrya Veer Savarkar opened to mixed response and didn’t perform up to the mark at the box office.

In a podcast with Ranveer Allahbadia, Hooda opened up about the lack of support for the film and how he had to sell his properties to keep the film going.

“We had difficulties making the film from the start because the team that was initially attached to the project, those people didn’t have the intention to make a quality film. They just wanted to make a film. And when I came as a director, that quality was not going to work. Because of this, we had to face a lot of problems in production, we had to face a financial crunch,” said Randeep.

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“Even after having my horses, I had to sell the properties that my father bought for me with his hard-earned money for this film. The support that this type of film should have got, it didn’t get that from anyone. I did get support from the people who invested in the film with me, my crew, and the cast, but we didn’t get any other help. So I kept on going alone. I don’t know why we didn’t get that support. But I don’t want to go back to the struggles I faced while making this film. Only my family, my wife, and I know what all we went through,” he added.

Talking about how he brought his weight to sixty kgs for the movie, he said, “I would have only water, black coffee, and green tea, then I added chilla to my diet, some dark chocolate and nuts… I began to lose sleep, I fell down a couple of times on set.”

_Swatantrya Veer Savarkar_ also featured Ankita Lokhande Jain in a key role.