Filmmaker Rajkumar Santoshi has revealed that investors were initially reluctant to back Batwara 1947 because of its subject and Sunny Deol’s Muslim character. Speaking to Galatta India, Santoshi said financiers wanted him to make a conventional action film with Deol instead.

Rajkumar Santoshi reveals investors didn't want to do Batwara 1947

Santoshi explained that several Mumbai-based investors were interested in reuniting him with Deol, but were hesitant when they learned about the subject of the film. “Most of the investors here in Mumbai came to know that Sunny Deol and I were doing a film, they wanted me to do a regular action film, a vigilante film. They were not ready to take this film, where Sunny is playing a Muslim character,” he said.