Key Highlights Share: Hansal Mehta narrates how `Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar` was conceptualized The film`s scale changed after Manoj Bajpayee became popular post Satya Hansal Mehta reveals the film`s failure affected him hugely Hansal Mehta directed 'Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!!' which was released in the year 2000. Starring his good friend , along with Tabu and Saurabh Shukla, the film was a box office debacle. The film was about migrant life, centred on a village man moving to a big city to earn his living.
In a recent conversation with Mid-day, Mehta described how the film came about and how Saurabh Shukla wrote the film. "Saurabh was working in a series called Rishtey, in a story about a fat man falling in love. It was called 'Ae Motey' - much before Bala and all these movies happened - it was about a man, who can't tell a woman because he's worried about his size.
We were shooting that and Saurabh was a bit restless. He was upset about something going on in his professional life. So, I sat with him and said I have a story.
ADVERTISEMENT "It was just a random story from something I had seen in the news. A couple was making out and they had kept a video camera on. Behind them there was a big blast, which they captured and that footage was sold to BBC.
I thought it was a story - what if somebody who shoots marriages sees a contract killing? He has a friend who's a contract killer, and he says, I'll shoot it and sell it to the news channels. Saurabh agreed to write the film provided he got .