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EXCLUSIVE: Saif Ali Khan's Chef avoids clash with Ranbir Kapoor - Katrina Kaif's Jagga Jasoos
Director Raja Krishna Menon talks about avoiding a clash between his movie Chef and Jagga Jasoos.
When news broke out that Jagga Jasoos which stars Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif was going to release on July 14, the realisation dawned that the movie would be clashing with not just one, but three other movies - Saif Ali Khan's Chef, Sridevi's MOM and Shraddha Kapoor's Haseena: The Queen of Mumbai.
MOM was the first to prepone its release date to July 7, 2017, and now it looks like Chef too will be changing its release date.
When we spoke to director Raja Krishna Menon about the change in release date, he said, "Since Jagga Jasoos has announced its release on July 14, we are meeting this coming week to evaluate our best release option. What is paramount is that we find a corridor that gives Chef the best release window possible." 
Earlier in an interview with Pinkvilla while promoting his previous release Rangoon, Saif spoke about Chef which is a Hindi adaptation of the 2014 Indie hit, Chef which stars Jon Favreau, Sofia Vergara, Scarlett Johansson and Robert Downey Jr. About the story, he revealed, "It (Chef) is a big film while the original is a small Indie movie. The Hindi film version is big covering geographically from New York to Kerala to Amritsar, Delhi, Goa. So it is kind of all over the place. It is a father-son story, it is about a husband and wife divorce-marriage story. It is about redemption and second chances. So it is quite a deep film."
On Raja, he said, "Raja Menon is one of the brightest and dedicated filmmakers I have worked with and he has got a different take to things. Not different but matured and sensitive take. He has made, well I hope one of the best films that I have been a part of. I am very lucky to have got him as a director at this stage after he did Airlift. It is a big hit. He could have done anything after this but the producers asked him to write this script. And when they asked him his first choice, he said Saif Ali Khan. That is a great compliment. I hope I have given him something to be proud of."
Looks like it will be Jagga Jasoos vs Haseena: The Queen of Mumbai at the box-office!
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