Speaking to ETimes, Santoshi plays down the competition and explains, “I am just taking feedback. People are talking to me positively about the film. They are saying that finally, somebody dared to release the film on the same day as Shah Rukh’s film.” While that may sound like a clarion call for an inevitable clash, Santoshi makes it clear that he’s not competing against SRK. He says, “I would like to say that I am not releasing my film against his film. I am releasing my film along with his film. Both films are different from each other in look and scale. We are not clashing with his film. We are releasing our historic film on a historic day.”
The director of classics like Ghayal and Andaz Apna Apna says, “Godse killed Gandhi on January 30, 1948. The event has a historic significance. So, we had already decided to release the film around January 26. We got to know about Pathaan’s release date much later.”
Gandhi Godse Ek Yudh, features Deepak Antani, Chinmay Mandlekar, Pawan Chopra and Tanisha Santoshi in key roles.