
“The character Kunal Kadam is very real,” he adds. Everyone will be able to connect with it,” asserts Kunal and quick to add that it’s art house, but also a commercial Hindi film. The directorial debut of Vishal Mahadkar, Blood Money captures the struggle of a boy from a middle-class family for a better life. “Mukeshji and the distributors took the call,” says the actor who six years after Kalyug (2005), is working with Vishesh Films again.

The film was earlier scheduled for a March release, but producer Mukesh Bhatt didn’t want a clash with big-ticket films like Priyadarshan’s Tezz and Saif Ali Khan’s Agent Vinod. Kunal Khemu, who two years after 99 (2009), has another solo-hero movie, Blood Money, has to wait till April 13 for the film to hit theatres.
