Jaideep Ahlawat: ‘Advised the makers, I can handle this a lot dance’
Who’s ruling the web the previous few days? Jaideep Ahlawat, together with his easy dance strikes. Give the actor a task and he’ll knock it out of the park, however nobody anticipated him to burn the dance ground. That’s, till viewers noticed Jaadu, the social gathering quantity from Jewel Thief, additionally starring Saif Ali Khan and Nikita Dutta. “Nobody, not even Siddharth and Mamta [Anand, producers] had any concept that I favored dancing. After I was requested to do it, I mentioned, ‘I can handle this a lot dance,’” he smiles.
Ahlawat didn’t precisely spring a shock on us. In a 2021 interview, the actor had instructed mid-day that he needed to strap on dancing sneakers for the display (Wish to inform everybody I’m a dancer as nicely, April 15, 2021). Convey it up and he says, “I knew I may dance, however for some cause, such a script by no means reached me. Right here, Sid sir and the makers considered making me dance. They may have simply shot the music solely with Saif and Nikita. However Kunal bhai [Kapoor] and I had been included. I noticed the chance and accepted it.” That’s not it. We’ll see him shaking a leg once more quickly. “I did a movie earlier than Jewel Thief. Its launch received delayed,” he tells us.
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The Netflix heist thriller, with its dialogue-baazi and cat-and-mouse chase between the protagonists, comes as a departure from Ahlawat’s critical choices. How was it enjoying to the gallery? “Ek dum mast,” he says. “I’ve carried out all of this earlier than, for example, in Commando [2013], which had solely dialogue after dialogue. This type of dialogue-baazi turns into enjoyable when you realize it’s not force-fitted. We have now grown up watching [Amitabh] Bachchan saab, then Shah Rukh [Khan] saab. So, there is no such thing as a prep wanted to play such a personality.”
Whereas Ahlawat has teamed up with Khan within the Robbie Grewal and Kookie Gulati-directed thriller, he additionally shared display area with the co-star’s spouse and actor Kareena Kapoor Khan in Jaane Jaan (2023). “Ab most important member of the family kaha jaa sakta hoon,” he quips. Once we ask him if there are any variations or similarities between the 2 actors, Ahlawat shares, “As actors, they’re barely completely different. Jaane Jaan was fairly critical. So, [her] preparation was completely different. However the one factor I discovered fascinating is that regardless of being such large stars, each of them by no means intimidate you with their stardom.”
