Bade Miyan Chote Miyan: Prithviraj travelled across 3 countries, many cities just to shoot for 4 hours; made Akshay Kumar, Tiger Shroff feel like junior artistes
Bade Miyan Chote Miyan: Prithviraj travelled across 3 countries, many cities just to shoot for 4 hours; made Akshay Kumar, Tiger Shroff feel like junior artistes
After earning significant recognition and praise for his performance in director Blessy’s survival drama Aadujeevitham (The Goat Life), Malayalam actor Prithviraj Sukumaran is gearing up for the release of his next film, the Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff-starrer Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, where he takes on the role of the antagonist.
Meanwhile, Prithviraj recently opened up about the efforts he invested in ensuring that director Ali Abbas Zafar’s vision for Bade Miyan Chote Miyan was realised, even if it meant making unrealistic travel plans across three countries and multiple cities just to shoot for four hours.
Expressing immense happiness over his decision to join forces with Ali, Prithviraj told News18 Showsha, “Unfortunately, BMCM came to me when I was caught between Saalaar and, strangely enough, another Hindi film. In Malayalam, we don’t have the practice of doing multiple films together. When we start a film, we stick to that before moving on to the next one. So I was already in a foreign territory, doing two films together and then Ali gave me this fantastic script and the character. But yeah, I managed to pull it off.”
“Ali shoots everything in real. When I first heard the narration, I thought I was going to spend 40-50 days in a studio with green screens around me. I didn’t see a single green screen for the entirety of this film. My introduction sequence was shot at Glen Nevis in Scotland. At that time, I was shooting somewhere off Manali for another film. So, I drove from Manali to Kullu, took a flight from there to Chandigarh; then to Delhi, Bombay, Dubai, and finally from Dubai to Edinburgh. Then I drove all the way to Glen Nevis to shoot for four hours with a mask and then took the entire route back to join the film I was shooting in Manali,” he recalled, adding that Ali was adamant regarding shooting in the real location with a real chopper and the actual actor. He also commended Ali for wrapping up the shoot in 100 days.
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Ali Abbas Zafar added to it by sharing that whenever Prithviraj arrived on the sets of BMCM, Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff used to quip that they were no longer relevant as the former would steal all the spotlight. “The days Prithvi used to come on the set since he was coming only for 4 hours because he was shooting two really big films simultaneously, Akshay and Tiger used to tell me that ‘Today, we are junior artistes because all attention was on him.’ They would be standing in one corner, cold and shouting,” he mentioned.
The actor, however, immediately corrected Ali saying that Akshay and Tiger felt like they were junior artistes because Bade Miyan Chote Miyan is such that Prithviraj’s character speaks the most.
Also starring Manushi Chhillar, Alaya F and Sonakshi Sinha, Bade Miyan Chote Miyan will hit the screens on April 10.
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