So Indiawale in Happy New Year is a patriotic message?
SRK: I have always maintained that each of my films, however commercially mounted they are, does give out a message. Message is never more important than the entertainment, but it’s always there. Jisko samajh me aaya, aagaya. When Farah narrated the subject to me, I told her let’s mount this unabashedly, like a big time Bollywood masala film. Of course, times have changed so there has to be logic in whatever we do, it can’t be like we open the door and reach Switzerland, but the idea was to stick to the entertainment. Indiawale concept is important and after it, all things fell into place. This film is different because it doesn’t talk about winners; it celebrates six losers who have their individual dreams to fulfill.

Pic/ Satyajit Desai