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Actor Akshay Kumar opened up about his acting process in his new film Sarfira, a remake of the Tamil-language biopic Soorarai Pottru. He said that he pulled from the ‘trauma’ of losing his own father, while performing a scene in which his character loses his. Akshay said that as per usual, he didn’t use glycerin in the scene, and that his tears are real. He also recalled the mood on set during these scenes, and the request that he made to director Sudha Kongara to ease his process.
Chatting with Baradwaj Rangan on Galatta Plus, Akshay was asked what the toughest thing to ‘crack’ on Sarfira was, and he said, “There are many things in the film which I could relate to. This character lost his father, the trauma he went through… When that scene was happening, to be honest, I went into that kind of trauma, when I lost my father. I don’t use glycerin to cry, I use my own emotions to cry. When you see the film, I’m really crying.”
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Opening up further about shooting these scenes on set, Akshay said, “There were times when Sudha would say ‘cut’, and my head was still down, because I was still crying, because it isn’t easy to come out of that emotion. I’ve gone far away. I know in the back of my mind that she’s called cut, but it’s very difficult to bring it back (to reality). I used to request her to take longer shots, because then, I’m staying with the same emotion.”
Akshay said that he’d find it difficult to re-harness the same emotion when Sudha would cut and then set up a new shot from a different angle. To overcome these difficulties, he requested her to shoot with multiple cameras at the same time. She was kind enough to agree, Akshay said, but he admitted that it took them around a week to get accustomed to each other’s working styles.
In an earlier interview, Sudha opened up about these initial hiccups, and told Galatta Plus, “The first six days, he wasn’t happy. He was like, ‘What is this girl making me do all this rubbish?’ So then he and the producer spoke to me, and I said, ‘You do whatever you like to do, and I will tell you when it isn’t going right.’” After the release of the blockbuster film Animal, actor Bobby Deol said that he utilised a similar technique, and imagined his brother Sunny Deol dying in order to perform an emotional scene. Based on the life of Capt Gopinath, the man behind Deccan Airlines, Sarfira will be released on Friday.
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