Did you know Vasan Bala's Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota is inspired by true story?

Filmmaker Vasan Bala's Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota is his first theatrical release starring Radhika Madan, debutant Abhimanyu Dassani and Gulshan Devaiah in a double role. The action-comedy has already been lauded and won People's Choice Award in the Midnight Madness section at Toronto International Film Festival. The story has a unique mix of martial arts and man who is deprived of physical pain. However, narrating how the idea came, Vasan said that he started writing the script as an ode to martial arts but soon the quirky humane angle was included after a true story.

In an interview with PTI, Vasan Bala said, "I've always wanted to make a martial arts film. As a genre, India has never made it as such even though we have made unofficial remakes of these films, we have kind of never used martial arts properly. A friend of mine told me about this kid who comes to a dentist and doesn't ask for anesthesia. I got intrigued and then the whole process to know what his condition was started. Somehow while writing, this condition came in and it all merged with my martial arts love. This happened in 2015."

Vasan Bala rewrites his script all over again and he calls it an ''obsession''. "I would always go to scene one and start rewriting all over again. I must've rewritten it at least 10-15 times. I don't know why, but I think it's an obsession, when you think you've finished it, you go back and almost rewrite it again,'' he said.

Vasan Bala took considerable amount before introducing Bhagyashree's son Abhimanyu Dassani and re-introducing one-film-old Radhika Madan in lead roles in his film. In fact, Abhimanyu's audition process went over one and half month. "A lot of times when I'm doing ads, I keep a note of actors I'm hundred percent going to cast. But for the main characters we had to spend a lot of time searching for them. For Radhika, I didn't see any audition. There was an introduction of hers which I had seen and it was just very instinctive. Abhimanyu went through quite a lengthy process of auditioning for one and a half months,'' he said.

The film will release on March 21 and Vasan hopes to get a sound sleep once it is appreciated in India."Eventually it's the goodnight sleep we are chasing. But also the sleeplessness. When a film comes out, no matter what you've been through, there's no greater feeling to see your crew, the people you look up to, be happy and smiling."