With Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, Prithviraj Sukumaran returns to Hindi films after seven years. However, he was almost about to reject the Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff starrer. But as luck would have it, he finally came aboard the actioner to play a diabolical antagonist in it. And a large part of the credit goes to one of his directors, who has changed the course of the mainstream Kannada cinema with his recent outings.
In an exclusive conversation with News18 Showsha, Prithviraj reveals that it was Prashanth Neel – his Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire director – who gave him the much needed push to work out his dates and sign Bade Miyan Chote Miyan. “While shooting for the climax of Salaar, I was talking to Prashanth about this nice and wonderful script that Ali Abbas Zafar narrated to me. I told him that I’ve been offered a role in the film but I won’t be able to do it because of date issues,” he recalls.
What followed next was Prashanth’s constant insistence that finally nudged him to rethink his decision. “I spoke to Prashanth for about 20 minutes about the film and the script. That’s when he told me that it really looks like I want to do it. He said, ‘Knowing you, if you really let it go, you’ll feel rotten.’ And he was absolutely right. If I wasn’t a part of Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, I would’ve been kicking myself after watching it,” he tells us.
Not the one to be usually juggling multiple projects at the same time, Prithviraj decided to break the norm and create space for Bade Miyan Chote Miyan in his chock-o-block calendar while simultaneously shooting for Salaar with Prabhas and Karan Johar’s Sarzameen co-starring Kajol and Ibrahim Ali Khan, reportedly.
The Goat Life actor says, “Unfortunately, I was doing two films at the same time, which I usually never do. In the Malayalam industry, we don’t have the practise of doing multiple films together. When we start a film, we stick with it until we finish it and then move onto another one. But thankfully, things moved around a bit. Ali also adjusted a little which helped me do the film. I’m glad I could do it because it’s a very good film.”
The road ahead wasn’t smooth either as shooting for Ali’s film required him to travel for several hours before reaching the location. “My introduction scene was shot in Glen in Scotland and at that time, I was shooting somewhere off Manali for another film. I remember driving from there to Kullu, taking a flight from Kullu to Chandigarh, Chandigarh to Delhi, Delhi to Bombay, Bombay to Dubai and Dubai to Edinburg, from where I drove all the way to Glen. There I shot for four hours with a mask. And then went all the way back to Manali,” elaborates the Malayalam star, who’s currently busy filming his next directorial, L2: Empuraan.
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