Kai Po Che earns Rs 18 crore in opening weekend

"This book is about politics, friendship, love, religion and earthquake all in equal measure. But when you make a film there has to be a theme or trajectory... We chose to revolve it around friendship. Then you remove and add things from the novel and you end up making a different entity," he added.

After he directed Rock On it took almost four years for Abhishek Kapoor to come up with this film.

"It took a while... I did not intend to take such a long time. All I wanted to do is make a good film... So it took time. It is not a race as to who makes a film first. Hoping my next film does not take that long time," Kapoor said.

His next project would be with UTV Motion Pictures again and with Ekta Kapoor. The filmmaker, however refused to divulge details about it.

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