India, July 25 -- With successful credits for films such as 3 Idiots, PK, Sanju and more, Vidhu Vinod Chopra is one of the most seasoned filmmakers in Bollywood. In a recent interview with Screen, the filmmaker recalled how his film Munna Bhai MBBS was rejected by distributors in South India-but the film still made him rich.

Vidhu revealed that nobody bought Munna Bhai MBBS outside Mumbai and said, "Munna Bhai MBBS opened to empty theatres. Munna Bhai MBBS is the movie that made me rich, but that's because nobody bought that film outside of Mumbai. I had a distributor in the South of India, who had bought Munna Bhai for Rs.11 lakh. In those days, they used to take delivery. So he came to take delivery four days before the film's release....