Actor Sanjay Kapoor is collaborating with director Homi Adajania for the first time in their latest film, Murder Mubarak. But this isn’t the first attempt that the actor made to work with the director. Ahead of the film’s release, the stars of Murder Mubarak got together for HT City’s Stars In the City, where Kapoor made the revelation of his first ‘failed’ attempt at working with Adajania.

During the session, Kapoor remarked that Adajania has been on his bucket list of filmmakers to work with for more than 10 years. He said, “In fact, I wanted to produce a film with him. There is this film starring the great Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Kapoor and Rakesh Roshan titled Khel Khel Mein (1975) and I bought the rights for it. I don’t know whether he (Homi) knows, but I told the writer Shibani Bathija that if there’s one person who can make this film, it’s Homi. I approached him through her for the film, [but] he told her very politely that he doesn’t do remakes. But I think I am more fortunate that I got a chance to work with him, now, as an actor.”

Kapoor had acquired the rights of Khel Khel Mein a while ago and had announced making a remake in 2012. He planned to start filming for it the following year with fresh faces, but it never took off. However, the rights of the film remain with Kapoor, and he still plans to remake it sometime soon.

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An adaptation of Louis Thomas’ French novel Good Children Don’t Kill, Khel Khel Mein was a story of three college students (Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Kapoor and Rakesh Roshan). They play a prank and get involved with a notorious criminal. The comedy quickly turns into an edge-of-the-seat thriller.