Showing posts with label Angoor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angoor. Show all posts
Has Rohit Shetty shelved his plans to remake Angoor with Shah Rukh Khan?
8:05 AM
Hiren Kotwani (BOMBAY TIMES; December 11, 2017)Long before Rohit Shetty’s first collaboration with Shah Rukh Khan, Chennai Express (2013), the two were reportedly keen on remaking Gulzar’s cult comedy Angoor (1982) and had even acquired the rights for it. The idea of recreating the classic took a back seat again, when SRK and Rohit worked together on the action-romance Dilwale in 2015. Recently, when we met with the filmmaker, post the success of his last film Golmaal Returns, we asked him whether recreating Angoor with Shah Rukh Khan was still on his mind. He said, “If you give SRK (a film like) Angoor, he will make it into a watermelon! It’s a very sweet story. But when we try to make a simple film bigger, its essence and sweetness diminishes and it goes into another zone. I can go to a hill station, and make a film like Angoor in two months and come back. But I’m still wondering if I want to make a film on that scale or not.” His reasoning is not misplaced, because generally, when a filmmaker like Rohit teams up with an actor like SRK, the audience expects the film to be made on a mega canvas.
Talking about what inspires him to make films that are larger than life, Rohit said, “When we were kids, we looked up to filmmakers like Vijay Anand and Manmohan Desai. Later, when we worked as assistant directors, we were inspired by filmmakers like Mukul Anand. Back then, they didn’t have big budgets but even then they made grand films. Now we have the budgets and technical advantage, but strangely, fewer grand films. My schooling in movies comes from films of those days. So for me, cinema is 70mm, larger than life. When someone sees a film in theaters, it should be a big cinematic experience.”
Some time ago, there were also talks of Rohit remaking Ram Lakhan (1989), but that doesn’t seem to be on the cards either.
I applied for a job with a foreign bank-Varun Dhawan
8:10 AM
Varun Dhawan traces his celluloid journey, his love for brother Rohit and his father’s see-saw at the box-office
Roshmila Bhattacharya (MUMBAI MIRROR; September 28, 2017)
Today it’s hard to imagine Varun Dhawan as anything other than an actor but he surprises you by revealing that despite being director David Dhawan’ s son, thanks to his somewhat aloof older brother, Rohit, he didn’t grow up as a typical industry kid with stars in his eyes. His mother Karuna’s mantra — “Make money work for you”—would ring in his ears and Varun went on to do a course in business administration in London.
“After that, I applied for a job with a foreign bank. But midway through the interview, I was told that given all the theatre and drama classes I had packed into the extracurricular activities space, I was better suited for a career in the movies. I reinforced this observation by acting out scenes from films I’d grown up watching and by the end of the interview, a complete stranger had figured out which Dhawan I was and was advising me to follow my heart,” Varun reminisces with the refreshing candour that shines through his performances.
The 30-year-old actor however chose the longer route to the stars instead of using his father’s connections. It wasn’t easy but he enrolled in every possible acting class in town, watched Dev Anand and Shammi Kapoor films to learn the craft from the masters of commercial Hindi cinema, assisted Karan Johar on his directorial, My Name Is Khan, made a short film on drugs, gave countless auditions and did everything possible as he waited for a maker to come and tell his dad, “I’ve signed Varun for my film.”
It was a long and at times a frustrating wait, but finally it was the short film Adrenochrome as part of his show reel that got him his long-awaited break. “I got a call from a big production house but when I told Karan about it he told me not to go, saying he’d make a film with me. That film was Student Of The Year,” Varun smiles five years later, days before his ninth release, Judwaa 2.
The flashback trail brings back another memory. Varun as a boy of 10 going to Dimple preview theatre for a screening of the original Judwaa and being introduced to the original hero. “This was the first time I was interacting with him and I told him politely, ‘Hi, nice meeting you, Salman uncle.’ Salman who must have been around 30 at the time, told me to call him bhai and not uncle which I still do. And 20 years later, I’m all set to reboot that film, re-creating some of bhai’s iconic moves in the “Tan Tana Tan” song with Taapsee (Pannu) which has become a much-shared GIFF image today and reliving the famous bathtub scene from Judwaa. In fact, when I was shooting this scene, the time-tested lines from the original were playing on my mind and I requested my dad to let me improvise with them since the audience would be expecting it,” he shares.
However, on another level, he promises that this will be a new Judwaa despite it still being Sajid Nadiadwala, David Dhawan, Anupam Kher, Ganesh Acharya and Anu Malik’s film. Demonstrating a sharp insight of economics, Varun says that today, given the expensive ticket prices, the audience needs to be wooed to the theaters with Imax or 3D technology that can’t be enjoyed on laptops or iPads. “We have a lot of stunts and visual effects, including a bicycle chase on the lines of X Games, an annual extreme sports event, the kind you’ve never seen before on the Hindi screen. I’ve also requested the studios to reduce the ticket rates for morning shows so students can watch the film,” he asserts.
He goes on to reveal that having seen two brothers almost strangle each other in Tom Hardy’s double take, Legend, he insisted that they up the physical activity between the twins in the film. “So you see Raja grab Prem by the neck and the latter pushing him back angrily, something you wouldn’t expect to see in a David Dhawan film,” he says.
Growing up, did Varun ever wish for a twin too, you wonder, and he laughs, “No, I had Rohit and I was happy with my big brother though I’m not sure if he reciprocated my feelings given that he was always the one who was pulled up when, during an argument, I would start bawling. That would make me angry and aggressive, even if it was our mother who was reprimanding him. It was okay for me to fight with Rohit but if anyone else said a word against him, you couldn’t hold me back,” he shares, bunching his fists in reaction.
He goes on to add that it was because of this overwhelming sibling love that he still feels towards Rohit that he’s always wanted to do a ‘brother’ film and a Judwaa reboot felt just right. “I have seen all the twin films, from Ram Aur Shyam and Seeta Aur Geeta to Chalbaaz and Angoor which being a huge Sanjeev Kumar fan, is my all-time favourite. I’ve seen Angoor 20 times. Like Judwaa it’s sourced in Shakespeare’s play, Comedy of Errors. Every generation has had its Judwaas. For that matter when I was in Hyderabad recently, I met Nagarjuna and recalled that his 1994 action-comedy, Hello Brother, was the Telugu original of Judwaa,” he points out.
There’s a buzz about his twin caper, which opens this Friday. But this hasn’t been a good year for Bollywood with just half-a-dozen films, which includes Varun’s romcom, Badrinath Ki Dulhania, doing well commercially. He’s not unduly worried with satellite, digital and music rights fetching good prices. “We need a strong four-day weekend worldwide to see us through,” he shrugs, adding that it’s important today to not just control budgets but also promotions. “You have to be honest about what you are making so the audience doesn’t feel cheated.”
Judwaa 2 brings Varun’s director-dad back from hibernation. In the ’80s, David was once the baadshah of the box-office, before he faded away, only to bounce back with new partners, Salman and Anil Kapoor. Prod Varun on the ups and downs in his dad’s life and he acknowledges that while his parents took it in their stride and prepared them for the lows, Rohit and he were slightly unsettled. “But as pointed out by Newton in his third law, ‘for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction’ so what comes up, goes down and vice versa. And dad always bounced back with a Partner and a Mujhse Shaadi Karogi. It’s just that his strike-rate was so good that anything less was a downer. He was the most successful director of the ’90s,” he says, adding that like Govinda and his dad, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Ranveer Singh are the Jodi No. 1 of today while he shares a good tuning with his Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania and Badrinath Ki Dulhania director Shashank Khaitan.
Prod him on his heroines and he says that apart from Alia Bhatt, he makes a good match with Shraddha Kapoor and Jacqueline Fernandez. “Also, I think the audience got a kick from my pairing with Nawaz (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) in Badlapur because we are such polar opposites,” Varun says. What about Taapsee? “She is a cool customer who can change the game. She came into Judwaa 2 with the experience of 17 South films. With her to guide me, I felt I was in safe hands.”
He refuses to divulge anything about his upcoming projects — Shoojit Sorcar’s October which rolls soon and Sui Dhaaga Made In India with Anushka Sharma. There’s also talk of a Karan film, being referred to as Shiddat, reportedly featuring Sanjay Dutt, Sridevi, Sonakshi Sinha, Alia and Varun, which he is again mum about, joking that Abhishek Varman is “a very strict director and doesn’t like anyone going against the rules”. He’s equally evasive about steady date Natasha Dalal, insisting that the only ‘Prem’ he wants to talk about is his character from Judwaa 2 who embodies all the goodness of his brother.
Meanwhile, he’s got himself a new apartment but doesn’t know when he’ll move in. Pointing out that he’s been working non-stop for 200 days with no holiday coming up before October wraps up, Varun is happy living with his parents. “I’ve just returned after five days of promotions. I’m living out of a suitcase and loving it. I’ve returned from Ahmedabad with 'Sanedo Sanedo Judwaa 2 Sanedo' ringing in my ears, met Saurav Ganguly in Kolkata, binged on mishti doi and seen Messi pop up in the LED displays of the city’s Durga Puja pandals,” he says.
Today it’s hard to imagine Varun Dhawan as anything other than an actor but he surprises you by revealing that despite being director David Dhawan’ s son, thanks to his somewhat aloof older brother, Rohit, he didn’t grow up as a typical industry kid with stars in his eyes. His mother Karuna’s mantra — “Make money work for you”—would ring in his ears and Varun went on to do a course in business administration in London.
“After that, I applied for a job with a foreign bank. But midway through the interview, I was told that given all the theatre and drama classes I had packed into the extracurricular activities space, I was better suited for a career in the movies. I reinforced this observation by acting out scenes from films I’d grown up watching and by the end of the interview, a complete stranger had figured out which Dhawan I was and was advising me to follow my heart,” Varun reminisces with the refreshing candour that shines through his performances.
The 30-year-old actor however chose the longer route to the stars instead of using his father’s connections. It wasn’t easy but he enrolled in every possible acting class in town, watched Dev Anand and Shammi Kapoor films to learn the craft from the masters of commercial Hindi cinema, assisted Karan Johar on his directorial, My Name Is Khan, made a short film on drugs, gave countless auditions and did everything possible as he waited for a maker to come and tell his dad, “I’ve signed Varun for my film.”
It was a long and at times a frustrating wait, but finally it was the short film Adrenochrome as part of his show reel that got him his long-awaited break. “I got a call from a big production house but when I told Karan about it he told me not to go, saying he’d make a film with me. That film was Student Of The Year,” Varun smiles five years later, days before his ninth release, Judwaa 2.
The flashback trail brings back another memory. Varun as a boy of 10 going to Dimple preview theatre for a screening of the original Judwaa and being introduced to the original hero. “This was the first time I was interacting with him and I told him politely, ‘Hi, nice meeting you, Salman uncle.’ Salman who must have been around 30 at the time, told me to call him bhai and not uncle which I still do. And 20 years later, I’m all set to reboot that film, re-creating some of bhai’s iconic moves in the “Tan Tana Tan” song with Taapsee (Pannu) which has become a much-shared GIFF image today and reliving the famous bathtub scene from Judwaa. In fact, when I was shooting this scene, the time-tested lines from the original were playing on my mind and I requested my dad to let me improvise with them since the audience would be expecting it,” he shares.
However, on another level, he promises that this will be a new Judwaa despite it still being Sajid Nadiadwala, David Dhawan, Anupam Kher, Ganesh Acharya and Anu Malik’s film. Demonstrating a sharp insight of economics, Varun says that today, given the expensive ticket prices, the audience needs to be wooed to the theaters with Imax or 3D technology that can’t be enjoyed on laptops or iPads. “We have a lot of stunts and visual effects, including a bicycle chase on the lines of X Games, an annual extreme sports event, the kind you’ve never seen before on the Hindi screen. I’ve also requested the studios to reduce the ticket rates for morning shows so students can watch the film,” he asserts.
He goes on to reveal that having seen two brothers almost strangle each other in Tom Hardy’s double take, Legend, he insisted that they up the physical activity between the twins in the film. “So you see Raja grab Prem by the neck and the latter pushing him back angrily, something you wouldn’t expect to see in a David Dhawan film,” he says.
Growing up, did Varun ever wish for a twin too, you wonder, and he laughs, “No, I had Rohit and I was happy with my big brother though I’m not sure if he reciprocated my feelings given that he was always the one who was pulled up when, during an argument, I would start bawling. That would make me angry and aggressive, even if it was our mother who was reprimanding him. It was okay for me to fight with Rohit but if anyone else said a word against him, you couldn’t hold me back,” he shares, bunching his fists in reaction.
He goes on to add that it was because of this overwhelming sibling love that he still feels towards Rohit that he’s always wanted to do a ‘brother’ film and a Judwaa reboot felt just right. “I have seen all the twin films, from Ram Aur Shyam and Seeta Aur Geeta to Chalbaaz and Angoor which being a huge Sanjeev Kumar fan, is my all-time favourite. I’ve seen Angoor 20 times. Like Judwaa it’s sourced in Shakespeare’s play, Comedy of Errors. Every generation has had its Judwaas. For that matter when I was in Hyderabad recently, I met Nagarjuna and recalled that his 1994 action-comedy, Hello Brother, was the Telugu original of Judwaa,” he points out.
There’s a buzz about his twin caper, which opens this Friday. But this hasn’t been a good year for Bollywood with just half-a-dozen films, which includes Varun’s romcom, Badrinath Ki Dulhania, doing well commercially. He’s not unduly worried with satellite, digital and music rights fetching good prices. “We need a strong four-day weekend worldwide to see us through,” he shrugs, adding that it’s important today to not just control budgets but also promotions. “You have to be honest about what you are making so the audience doesn’t feel cheated.”
Judwaa 2 brings Varun’s director-dad back from hibernation. In the ’80s, David was once the baadshah of the box-office, before he faded away, only to bounce back with new partners, Salman and Anil Kapoor. Prod Varun on the ups and downs in his dad’s life and he acknowledges that while his parents took it in their stride and prepared them for the lows, Rohit and he were slightly unsettled. “But as pointed out by Newton in his third law, ‘for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction’ so what comes up, goes down and vice versa. And dad always bounced back with a Partner and a Mujhse Shaadi Karogi. It’s just that his strike-rate was so good that anything less was a downer. He was the most successful director of the ’90s,” he says, adding that like Govinda and his dad, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Ranveer Singh are the Jodi No. 1 of today while he shares a good tuning with his Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania and Badrinath Ki Dulhania director Shashank Khaitan.
Prod him on his heroines and he says that apart from Alia Bhatt, he makes a good match with Shraddha Kapoor and Jacqueline Fernandez. “Also, I think the audience got a kick from my pairing with Nawaz (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) in Badlapur because we are such polar opposites,” Varun says. What about Taapsee? “She is a cool customer who can change the game. She came into Judwaa 2 with the experience of 17 South films. With her to guide me, I felt I was in safe hands.”
He refuses to divulge anything about his upcoming projects — Shoojit Sorcar’s October which rolls soon and Sui Dhaaga Made In India with Anushka Sharma. There’s also talk of a Karan film, being referred to as Shiddat, reportedly featuring Sanjay Dutt, Sridevi, Sonakshi Sinha, Alia and Varun, which he is again mum about, joking that Abhishek Varman is “a very strict director and doesn’t like anyone going against the rules”. He’s equally evasive about steady date Natasha Dalal, insisting that the only ‘Prem’ he wants to talk about is his character from Judwaa 2 who embodies all the goodness of his brother.
Meanwhile, he’s got himself a new apartment but doesn’t know when he’ll move in. Pointing out that he’s been working non-stop for 200 days with no holiday coming up before October wraps up, Varun is happy living with his parents. “I’ve just returned after five days of promotions. I’m living out of a suitcase and loving it. I’ve returned from Ahmedabad with 'Sanedo Sanedo Judwaa 2 Sanedo' ringing in my ears, met Saurav Ganguly in Kolkata, binged on mishti doi and seen Messi pop up in the LED displays of the city’s Durga Puja pandals,” he says.
Returning to theatre is always a beautiful holiday for me-Swanand Kirkire
8:22 AM
His words have complemented many a tune in Hindi cinema, but the celebrated lyricist, who plays a pivotal role in a recent play, remains a theatrewallah at heart
Reema Gehi (MUMBAI MIRROR; July 24, 2016)
An hour before the rehearsal of Chakkar Chalaaye Ghanchakkar, at the Jamshed Bhabha Auditorium located inside the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Swanand Kirkire seems visibly composed. The lyricist of movies such as Fitoor (2016), 3 Idiots (2009), Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) and Parineeta (2005) for the first time essays a full-length role in a play, which opened on Saturday. Written by Gulzar, it draws inspiration from his own film, Angoor (1982), which was based on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors — the play is perhaps director Salim Arif's most ambitious production and he seems rather content with Kirkire's contribution.
The 46-year-old, who played a small role in Manav Kaul's Colour Blind opposite Kalki Koechlin in 2014, says, "Returning to theatre is always a beautiful holiday for me. But acting in a play written by Gulzarsaab means something else. I greatly admire and respect his work," says Kirkire. "The other day when he was at the rehearsals, he told me that he really liked my performance and I was over the moon."
Kirkire credits his achievement to his foundation in theatre. "Whatever work you do in cinema, you do it at a certain time and space, and it reaches people much later and your work is served as a whole package. Theatre offers spontaneity, which I enjoy very much. It not only helps you became purer as a creative person, but it allows you to develop a direct relationship between you and your audience," he shares. "But I must confess, each time I go on stage I feel as nervous and excited as I did the first time."
Hailing from Indore, Kirkire, whose parents Chintamani and Neelambari were disciples of the legendary Kumar Gandharva, dreamed of a career in the business of entertainment. Before he enrolled himself at the National School of Drama in Delhi, Kirkire joined a theatre group and performed alongside actors Manoj Bajpayee, Ashish Vidyarthi and Piyush Mishra. "I learnt a lot from our director N K Sharma, especially the basics from him. It was my beginning in theatre."
At the NSD, where he studied design and direction, he met Satyadev Dubey with whom he shared a "love-hate relationship". The inimitable Dubey played a pivotal role in shaping Kirkire's career. "Everybody knows how Dubey was and is. For me, he's still there in our lives," he smiles.
Recalling an incident when Dubey met him for the first time at NSD, where he would organise classes, Kirkire laughs, "He saw me and asked me to leave. He said he didn't like my face and that it depressed him. I was very upset. I didn't know what to think."
But Kirkire chose to take the personal jibe in his stride and continued hanging around at his rehearsals. "The man had charisma and somehow you wanted him to like you," he says. It was only much later when Dubey heard Kirkire, an untrained singer, croon to his beautifully-penned Bawra Mann for Sudhir Mishra's Hazaron Khwahishein Aisi that he truly warmed up to him. "Before giving it to Sudhir, I sang that song at a party. Dubey was present there and he hugged me after listening to the song, and since then he started to love me," he says. "After that day, whichever play I staged, for instance, Aao Saathi Sapna Dekhe in 2013, he would tell me to stop the play and sing Bawra Mann. When I would argue saying it doesn't make sense, he would respond, 'You don't know how to cash in on your success which is why you're going nowhere'."
Currently, Kirkire is in the process of writing a film for R Balki and songs for Rajkumar Hirani's next (a biopic on actor Sanjay Dutt). According to him writing lyrics for Hindi cinema was sheer "serendipity". "My plan was to make movies," he says "When I was recording Bawra Mann for Sudhir Mishra, Pradeep Sarkar was present and he made me meet Vidhu Vinod Chopra, and that's how Parineeta happened and then it just snowballed into something else. Much like life, really."
I only trust Salim Arif with my work-Gulzar
8:33 AM
Gulzar’s 1982 cult classic Angoor is finally making a stage debut. Helming the play is the writer’s long-time friend and collaborator, Salim Arif
Jane Borges (MID-DAY; July 17, 2016)
We are in the midst of speaking to veteran lyricist and film director Gulzar at his Pali Hill bungalow when he lets us in on something he hasn’t shared before. “I am a great admirer of this man,” he says, pointing to theatre director Salim Arif, who is sitting right across him, in Gulzar’s drawing room. “And I only trust him with my work.” Arif almost blushes at the flattering remark, and the two go on to exchange a warm smile before Gulzar continues, “He always surprises me with what he does to my characters and stories on stage. I am confident he will do it again.”
That Gulzar passed on the baton to Arif to recreate his 1982 cult classic Angoor — inspired from William Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors — that starred Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Verma in twin roles, is reason enough to believe him. The new adaptation, Chakkar Chalaaye Ghanchakkar, will feature theatre actors Zeeshan Ayub and Swanand Kirkire, and will be staged later this month in Mumbai. “There is a reason why I didn’t allow for a stage remake of the film earlier,” says the 81-year-old veteran writer. Personally, Gulzar felt that Kumar and Verma had set the bar too high for any other actor to replicate those performances.
The other factor was the logistics, which demanded having to show twin characters and different locations, on stage. “But, when Arif approached me, he came with a very logical question. He said, ‘Gulzar saab, if it was written for theatre, it should be possible to recreate it on stage’. I had to agree,” says Gulzar. “With a director like Arif to guide the actors, I knew it was in safe hands.”
Chakkar Chalaaye Ghanchakkar is set in a small town in northern India. The plot revolves around two pairs of identical twins separated at birth, whose lives go haywire when they meet in adulthood. For the play, Gulzar has tightened the original script, while retaining some of the dialogues from the films. Though, there are a few new elements of surprise, says Arif. “The biggest challenge for me is to ensure that people forget the film within five minutes of watching the play. I want to hold on to the playfulness and carnival- like chaos of Angoor, but give them something new,” the National School of Drama alumni adds.
Incidentally, this month also marks Arif’s 15th year in theatre. His first work on stage was Kharaashein, which again was adapted from Gulzar’s selection of poetry based on the Hindu-Muslim riots. Since then, they have worked on several theatre projects, including Lakeerein, Humsafar, Kachche Lamhe and Paansa. This association, however, goes back way further, when Arif worked as a costume designer for Gulzar’s television drama Mirza Ghalib in 1988.
When it comes to theatre adaptations of his works, only Arif does justice to them, feels Gulzar. “He is very particular about never changing a word or line from my script. Even if he wants to add something new, he ensures that he crosschecks with me. And, because we understand each other so well, it becomes easier to work on a creative level,” Gulzar says, adding that one reason he opted out of scripting for films is because these days, the director has greater control over the writer’s work. “ The medium [film] is not in your hands anymore. I’d rather explore theatre.”
When: July 23 and 24, 7.30 PM
Where: Jamshed Bhabha Theatre: NCPA, NCPA Marg, Nariman Point
Entry: Rs 300 – Rs 1,000
Call: 39895050
Shah Rukh Khan calls Dilwale-Bajirao Mastani clash 'unfortunate'
8:05 AM
Shah Rukh Khan talks about the Friday clash with Bajirao Mastani and more...
Tushar Joshi (DNA; October 27, 2015)
Shah Rukh Khan and director Rohit Shetty hosted a
special screening of his upcoming release Dilwale at Ramoji Film City in
Hyderabad. Present at the event were the film’s cast and crew,
including lead actors Varun Dhawan, Kriti Sanon, Kajol and SRK. On
display was eye-popping action, some scenes from the film and the grand
romantic track featuring SRK and Kajol in Iceland.
The film releases on December 18, the same date as Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bajirao Mastani, starring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone. Speaking on the clash for the first time, SRK said, “Of course, the audience will get divided. I believe not just in my film, but in films and I respect each and every film. I think it is kind of unfortunate, but you know we make around 200 films a year and there are just 52 to 56 Fridays, so films will come together on the same day, but I think there is enough business to be done on that weekend for two films to come out and do well. So, hopefully, both the films will do well.”
He also shed light on him and Rohit coming together for the remake of Angoor. “We met for the first time to plan the remake. Ever since then, he has come up with a different story and script and we have gone ahead and made that film. We had even cast, read the script, thought of how to go ahead, and then, in the middle of it, he came up with another idea that he had and we went ahead and made Chennai Express. Again, we tried going back to making Angoor and he narrated Dilwale and we have done it. Angoor is ready with us, when the time is right, we will do it,” he said.
Varun Dhawan plays Shah Rukh’s brother in the film. SRK is all praise for the youngster, “I haven’t worked with a new younger male co-star of late, though I keep working with younger actresses. Varun is a fantastic dancer and a wholesome actor. I’ve known him for years now, since he was a kid. He is very conscientious about the work he does, very focussed. To be a good actor, you have to have that focus for those eight-10 hours. I have worked with actors who have no focus, they might have the greatest talent, but they’ll never succeed. When I work with younger actors, I realise I need to work harder. It’s amazing the amount of focus and energy Varun has!”
Shah Rukh also talked about the return of his pairing with Kajol and how the audience perceives them to be the greatest screen pair. He said, “We are like family, we have known each other for so long. I think apart from a few other co-actors, she’s the only one with whom I have had success after success with each release. I think we are opposites, to be honest, except for, maybe, the beautiful eyes. I work with technique, I have done theatre for eight years, she works from her feeling and we complement each other. What hasn’t changed about her for so many years, is that she’s the most natural person and as real as it gets. There is a certain innocence and child-like trait about her which I hugely admire.”
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