MUMBAI: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has announced that he would re-release his last film Delhi 6 with a new ending.

The film, based on religious and political intolerance, is the story of a young American boy of Indian origin, who comes to India for the first time to drop his ailing grandmother. She wants to die in her own soil, and so prepares for her own death. After coming to India he interacts with his grandmother‘s neighbourhood and seamlessly dissolves in as if one of them. Little does he know that the endearing people including his grandmother have another face that feeds the devil within, a devil that resides within each one of them.

The director has revealed that his original plan for the climax scene was Abhishek Bachchan‘s character dying at the end. He, however, admits that he drifted away from his vision of killing the film‘s protagonist. The ploy, however, did not work. "I now want to re-release the film so that people can see what the original idea behind the movie was," admits Mehra.

Despite critical acclaim at a number of international film festivals, the film under performed at the box office when it released last year.