Showing posts with label Taxi No 9211. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taxi No 9211. Show all posts
Every time, I think I will start developing a film after finishing the series but that doesn’t happen-Rohan Sippy
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Even as he is toying with film ideas, Duranga 2 director Sippy says helming back-to-back series has left him with no time to make features
Priyanka Sharma (MID-DAY; October 17, 2023)
In Rohan Sippy’s head, the ending of Duranga’s first season is an interval point, and a gripping one at that. The Gulshan Devaiah and Drashti Dhami-led crime drama ended by revealing the true identity of Amit Sadh’s character. When Sippy was approached to helm the second instalment, he knew it would be an exciting starting point.
“The writing was so clever, with Amit Sadh waking up as the real Samit Patel at the end of the first season. I saw that as the right scene for an interval point of a film. So, there is a great promise of a second half,” he says.
The opportunity to reconnect with an old collaborator was another highlight for the director. “I worked with Gulshan in Dum Maaro Dum 12 years ago. More than their work, I am drawn to people’s nature, and Gulshan is a lovely person. He has built an [admirable] repertoire.”
In the past few years, Sippy seamlessly shifted to digital entertainment, helming The Office, Criminal Justice, and Aranyak. It has left the director, whose last film offering was Nautanki Saala (2013), with little time to focus on features. But he is not complaining.
“I’ve got so many fun opportunities in OTT in the last two years that before I know, six months to a year go by in making a show. Every time, I think I will start developing a film after finishing the series in hand. But that doesn’t happen,” he smiles, adding that he is toying with a few movie ideas.
With theatres back to their old glory, larger-than-life spectacles have worked wonders at the box office, as have sequels—from Gadar 2: The Katha Continues to Fukrey 3. Would he like to make a sequel to any of his films? “Taxi No 9211 [2006] would be fun to reimagine. Its themes are good to revisit 15 years later. But I haven’t thought of it actively.”
The Kapil Sharma Show: John Abraham reveals how his mother stopped his shoot once
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MUMBAI MIRROR (August 13, 2019)
From playing an entitled business scion in the 2006 comedy-thriller Taxi No 9211, to playing a cop based on real events, John Abraham sure has come a long way. The actor, who plays DCP Sanjeev Kumar Yadav in his Independence Day release, Batla House, recently turned up on The Kapil Sharma Show and, might we add, went a bit off-script.
The usually reserved actor took to the stage to share an anecdote from the sets of his 2006 Milan Luthria directorial when, for one of the scenes, he had to lie down on the street and roll his way out with cars zooming past. Incidentally, his mother was driving past and saw her son lying on the road. Assuming the worst, she rushed to the spot, screaming in Gujarati. Only when she saw the cameras pointed in her son’s direction was she assured that everything was fine.
Talking about his cop turn in his upcoming film, John also revealed that he put in extra hours at the gym and asked the director (Nikkhil Advani) to take a full-shot because he wanted to flaunt his body. On the topic of guilty pleasures, the actor confessed that he snacks on his favourite diet food, makhana, to keep hunger pangs at bay.
John also confessed that he was a lazy dresser and preferred slippers over shoes. In fact, he went on to reveal that he owns only two pairs of shoes, one of which he wore for the show.
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