Though director Meghna Gulzar’s Sam Bahadur didn’t obtain the success it deserved on the field workplace, partly as a consequence of stiff competitors from director Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s controversial Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Animal, the biographical battle drama resonated with audiences and plenty of praised Vicky Kaushal for his distinctive portrayal of Sam Manekshaw, India’s first Discipline Marshal.
Vicky, who nonetheless regards Sam Manekshaw as essentially the most difficult position he has performed up to now, lately shared an incident the place he acquired a message from the late Military chief’s daughter after she watched the track “Tauba Tauba” from his newest outing Bad Newz.
“There’s a factor about enjoying a military officer after which there’s a factor about enjoying a military officer that the Military considers a legend. It’s an enormous accountability. I grew up listening to tales about him from my dad and mom since each my mother and pa have been in Punjab when 1971 (India-Pakistan) war broke out. They used to inform me how they’d research in a darkish room and conceal out within the storeroom and the way they waited for Sam sir’s directions to return via the radio and all that. Rising up listening to tales about such a hero after which getting the chance to play him (on display), it felt like such an enormous accountability. That was actually nerve-wracking for me, however I used to be very glad and fortunate to have been within the succesful fingers of Meghna Gulzar,” he mentioned throughout a latest chat with Bollywood Hungama, including that the director is extraordinarily meticulous and hard-working.
“The opposite day, Maya, one among Sam Manekshaw’s daughters, messaged me after seeing ‘Tauba Tauba’. She was like, ‘Who is that this man?’ and I used to be like, ‘What do you imply?’ She replied, ‘5 months in the past you made me consider you’re my father; you’ll be able to’t be doing this now.’ I imply, it’s my job,” he mentioned, laughing, “however it felt like the largest praise for me.”
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