Subhash K Jha (DNA; November 11, 2016)

Dedicated method actor Rajkummar Rao has been starving himself to play a trauma survivor in Vikramaditya Motwane’s Trapped, a film that Motwane quietly completed while working on his vigilante film Bhavesh Joshi with Harshvardhan Kapoor.

Rajkummar’s film directed by Motwane has only one character, who is trapped in a building. Says the actor, “It’s just the story of one guy who’s stuck in a high-rise. We shot for it last year.”

He undertook an intense dietary preparation to look like a man trapped in the high-rise. “It was very organic and a gradual preparation. I was living in extreme circumstances while we were filming where there was no food or water for days. How will one survive? What happens to our body if not given food or water for days? It was physical and mental torture but I thoroughly enjoyed the process and I’m overwhelmed by the kind of response we’ve got for our film at the MAMI.”