"Happy Bhag Jayegi" is an audience backed film: director

Director Mudassar Aziz says the response to his 2016 sleeper hit "Happy Bhag jayegi" pushed him to come up with a sequel.

The second installment titled, "Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi", has a bigger star cast with Sonakshi Sinha and Jassi Gill joining Diana Penty and Jimmy Sheirgill.

"There are two Happy in this film. We have not replaced one Happy by another Happy. We had a story in which there are two heroines, one was Diana and for the other one we zeroed on Sonakshi.

"It is an audience-backed film. We want people to back it. We are hoping people will love this film," he told PTI.

Aziz is also open for a possible trilogy of the story provided the sequel works.

"If the audience after watching the second part feel that there is something left to be shown, then the third part will be made."
"She has got a reach but she is in an interesting stage in her career, where she is figuring out. She can do 'Dabangg', 'Rowdy Rathore' kind of films. She is intelligent and brave. She is making all the right choices."