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28 March 2024

Salman Khan and Preity Zinta director back after Big C

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By Sanskriti Media

Director Prem Soni who has directed Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor in Main Aur Mrs Khanna and Preity Zinta in her debut production Ishq in Paris is back in action after his fight with cancer. Preity had also done a dance number in Main Aur Mrs Khanna.

Prem was diagnosed with the Big C when he was shooting the film. The film got stuck and was somehow released, but it failed. Prem’s debut film Main Aur Mrs Khanna too was a failure.

But the maker of the film Dhadkan – Ratan Jain of Venus films has now asked Prem to direct the sequel to the film which had released in 2000. All three actors of that film – Akshay Kumar, Shilpa Shetty and Suniel Shetty were giving back to back flops when the Nadeem Shravan musical went to be a blockbuster.

Prem has managed to fight the gall bladder cancer and now has the gall to take on Bollywood yet again.

Prem is not the first filmmaker to do so.

Not long ago, Anurag Basu of Barfi fame was making a film called Tumsa Nahin Dekha with Emraan Hashmi and Dia Mirza when he was diagnosed with blood cancer.

The doctors told him that he coule beat it if he had the will to fight. His assistant and the producer Mahesh Bhatt’s nephew Mohit Suri finished the film and Anurag who had made films like Saaya and Murder earlier, took a break and came back strongly with films like Gangster, Life In a Metro, Kites and Barfi. His next release will be the Ranbir-Katrina starrer Jagga Jasoos.

There have been actresses in Bollywood who were diagnosed with cancer and they fought it. The recent example being that of Manisha Koirala who came back unscathed after a fight with ovarian cancer. Four years ago, in December 2012, the actress underwent a surgery and has been cancer-free ever since.

Actress Lisa Ray who worked in films like Deepa Mehta’s Water and Mahesh Bhatt’s Kasoor was diagnosed of multiple myeloma, seven years back.

Multiple Myeloma, for the less enlightened, is a rare disease and a cancer of plasma cells in the bone marrow. She is being treated for the same now. Doctors haven’t still found a complete cure for the cancer.

Veteran actress Mumtaz and actor Fardeen Khan’s mother in law was diagnosed of breast cancer 14 years back when she was around 54 years old.

The actress went through several chemotherapies and radiations and has fought back her stalker.