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Shaheer Sheikh Feels There Is No Reason to Feel Motivated Due to Covid DAILY SUARGAM | JAMMU ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY | JUNE 11, 2021 10 Hina Khan looks Priyadarshan denies direct-to-OTT release for amazing & bonny in Marakkar: ‘It can be enjoyed only on the big screen’ Filmmaker Priyadarshan et film that can be enjoyed far as the release is con- ?150 crore for the film, even an orange attire has put to rest rumours only on the big screen, even cerned and we are sure a if they consider a digital regarding his upcoming if I have to wait for another big tentpole film like release. “With such huge Malayalam film Marakkar: six months it will only have Marakkar will have a big stakes involved, we’re con- Arabikadalinte Simham a theatrical release. screen release before going cerned about our product getting a direct-to-OTT Mohanlal, Antony the digital way,” he said. which we painstakingly release. He clarified that Perumbavoor (producer Priyadarshan asked if built, but we are in no the film, reportedly made and distributor), and me, any OTT platform would hurry to release the film. on a lavish budget of over we are on the same page as be interested in paying We’ll take a call when the ?100 crore, will only release world returns to normalcy, in cinemas. when people are in a posi- Marakkar: tion to enjoy things the way Arabikadalinte Simham, they used to earlier. We’re which stars Mohanlal in the looking forward to a lead role, was supposed to release in December or hit the screens last March. even early next year,” However, due to the coron- Priyadarshan had said in avirus pandemic, the an interview to The News release has been postponed Minute last year. indefinitely. In an inter- Marakkar: view with Sify.com, Arabikadalinte Simham, Priyadarshan reiterated produced by Anthony that Marakkar will only Perumbavoor, also stars come out in theatres, even Arjun, Suniel Shetty, if he has to wait for six Keerthy Suresh, Manju more months. Warrier and Siddique in “Marakkar is a big-budg- important roles. When Ranveer Singh thought he saw Alaya F can’t wait to get back on a set, says Bajirao’s ghost on Bajirao Mastani set, pandemic has reinforced her love for acting Alaya F was all gy, and “suddenly the her acting debut, has made her realise her called it ‘trippy experience’ charged up to start her momentum was taken explains that for long she love for acting. Ranveer Singh, who ence and I completely shower. “I started to think white dust had settled and Bollywood journey, in a away” from her because didn’t realise her life “There’s nothing in the played Peshwa Bajirao in freaked out. I recall it as one what if I encounter his ghost formed the pattern in the full-fledged manner, the whole world was so fast paced and world that I’d rather do, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s of the most difficult days of and connect to his spirit and shape of Bajirao’s figure. It after her debut Jawaani stopped. She continues, things changed in lock- other than act, and be in period drama Bajirao the shoot. I thought I felt all. I don’t know what made had the turban, the eyes, Jaaneman early last year. “In the beginning, it was down. front of the camera. I Mastani, once said that he nose, the mooch and the But instead, the actor very difficult because so “I could finally take knew this before, but possibly encountered the arms. The resemblance was was forced to spend her my time... now I don’t during this time, it has Maratha leader’s ghost. The for all to see,” he said. time sitting at home have to rush around to been so heavily rein- incident took place during While Ranveer did not waiting for the pandemic do everything,” she forced for me. My first the shoot of the film and discount the possibility of to subside. admits, adding, “Before movie, shooting the ‘completely freaked’ the his ‘mind playing tricks’, he She admits that initial- all this, I had become a music video, lockdown actor out. maintained that he had a ly she didn’t know how person who’d eat the and pandemic — they’ve Bajirao Mastani, which ‘strong instinctive feeling’. to handle the lull, but food in five minutes. In all only strengthened also starred Deepika Ranveer will be seen next she eventually came to the lockdown, I would this fact that this is what Padukone as Mastani and as former cricketer Kapil terms with it. finally sit and take 45 I want to do,” she insists. Priyanka Chopra as Dev in the sports drama 83, “For me, it was a par- minutes to finish a meal. And now, Alaya is just Kashibai, released in 2015. directed by Kabir Khan. ticularly tough time Now, [when we] come waiting for things to get The film was a commercial Deepika will also star in the because my film had just out of the lockdown, I’ll better, so she can get success with a gross world- film, as his wife, Romi Dev. been released (in be learning how to do back to her set life. wide collection of more some kind of presence and me think of it. But it was the It revolves around the January) and the world much was happening (in my work with as much “I have few projects than ?300 crore. something told me it’s following week that I felt it Indian cricket team’s first- went into a lockdown. my life). But eventually, passion and madness, lined up, which will be In an interview with him,” he said. actually happen. I had a ever World Cup victory in So, that was very disap- I learned that you can and also allow time for announced soon, and for Deccan Chronicle in 2015, Ranveer supposedly tough task ahead of me on 1983. Apart from this, pointing in a lot of always make something myself.” which we should start Ranveer said that he was encountered the spirit of that day of shoot and I was Ranveer also has ways,” she confesses. out of nothing if you The 23-year-old, who shooting once things not a believer in ghosts until Bajirao on the set, a week praying hard to get it right. Sooryavanshi, Jayeshbhai The daughter of actor really want to.” was last seen in the open up. I can’t wait to he experienced it himself. after the thought crossed his There was a black wall on Jordaar and Cirkus in the Pooja Bedi says that she The actor, who studied music video Aaj Sajeya, get back on a set,” she “It was a very trippy experi- mind while he was in the the sets on which some pipeline. was bustling with ener- in New York (US) before says that the pandemic concludes excitedly. Tricky time for mental The Family Man 2 creators Raj and DK say Samantha health: Shaheer Sheikh Akkineni 'brown face' criticism is 'hard to hear' Raj Nidimoru and beauty is not even a part of grown up reading about it, is usually used in the con- dialect. So everything is a Krishna DK, the creators the conversation. The sec- seeing it. I get it when race text of beauty. That con- part of that character that of Amazon Prime Video's ond season of The Family is involved, and you get a text is not in our series. we're creating. This is not feels there is no reason to The Family Man, have Man released to positive white person to play a She's a warrior, that's it. an insult, or anything bad said that it is 'hard to hear' response from critics and Black person, or a brown And how do they look? in any sense, because we about the allegations of fans on June 4. person to play... It's a dif- They are weather-beaten, are not looking at it as in, racism that have been they have sun-tanned it is in any way that... We feel motivated due to Covid directed at Samantha faces, they don't have time are just showing the per- Shaheer Sheikh is home once again after In the Covid-era, he Akkineni's character, Raji, to look in the mirror, they son as she is. She's a beau- shooting for his new TV last year. He explains, admits that there are a in the second season of the don't have time to go to tiful person and she's done show, Kuch Rang Pyar “In the last few months, handful of opportunities show. the spa. The idea is that a great job. If you love the Ke 2 near Darjeeling and especially, every day one for work for TV actors. They defended them- she's a girl who's been liv- character you love the is glad to be back on a has been hearing of some The pandemic has affect- selves against the criticism ing that life, and that's it. It character. There is no set. The actor shares that or the other bad news. ed him a lot, he says. by saying that the decision is the right get-up for that statement made any other to give Samantha a darker character." way." he had second thoughts Back home some of my “We are all going complexion can't be com- DK added, "It is not dif- Raji is a Sri Lankan through a major crisis pare to the 'black face' -- a ferent from her being fit Tamil who is at the centre and there’s a lot of suf- white actor playing a for the role.
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