Meet the acting coach of Bollywood stars

Brut India

He played the villain in many OTT series, but did you know Saurabh Sachdeva has been coaching Bollywood stars on how to act? He shared with Brut how these stars were as students

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00:20A lot of them had a lot of difficulties and problems.

00:24Varun really had this curiosity all the time.

00:27He wanted to do all the characters.

00:29Whatever other people were doing, he had to do it.

00:32He used to sit in the front and sit on the edge.

00:35I had to do it. I said, relax.

00:37We obviously know how Raghav is.

00:39Raghav is so on the toes.

00:41Always making.

00:43So I always had to tone him down.

00:46He's doing too much for people.

00:48Bring it back to the performance.

00:50Connect to your co-actor.

00:51Now it seems easy to say.

00:53But at that time, when it wasn't happening,

00:55there was a lot of talk.

00:57You have to keep yourself busy and talk to the students.

01:01And Arjun was very intelligent.

01:04He had a lot of cinema knowledge.

01:06He had seen a lot of cinema.

01:08So he was always standing behind.

01:10He used to really watch everything.

01:12Every performance.

01:13Very curious.

01:14Richa was always on the edge.

01:16Very intelligent woman.

01:18So she was always intelligent and witty.

01:22And it was fun working with her.

01:24I didn't look up to her.

01:26As much as she understood.

01:28What not to do is

01:30not to focus on yourself while acting.

01:33Not to focus and be conscious about how I look.

01:36How my hair should be.

01:37How my face should be.

01:38When you are acting.

01:39Do that work before that.

01:41But when you have come to act,

01:43when you are with the co-actor,

01:44then your entire attention should be on the co-actor.

01:46If your attention is on yourself,

01:48then it's going to be a problem.

01:49How do we talk to the other person

01:52in the intimacy scene?

01:54If my co-actor is there,

01:56I'm going to ask her,

01:58can I touch on your head?

01:59And she will say,

02:01red, orange or green.

02:03Green means you can.

02:04Orange means I'm not sure right now.

02:06Red means no.

02:08And when she says no,

02:10that has to be no.

02:11That cannot be a...

02:14No.

02:15There's a very thin line of respect

02:17which is the actor respecting the co-actor.

02:21And it's not that it has to be with the opposite sex.

02:25It can be with the same sex also.

02:27And not in the intimacy scene.

02:28Sometimes the fight scene, action scene

02:30can also bring a lot of behavior.

02:33How you grew up,

02:34that impacts.

02:35How was your childhood?

02:37How was your upbringing?

02:39Which world do you come from?

02:41A lot of things

02:42impact on such scenes.

02:45With Kareena,

02:46I was very scared before.

02:48It was like,

02:49she's a big star

02:50and I have to do such scenes.

02:52I have to get close to her.

02:53I have to touch her.

02:54I talked to her.

02:55Can I come close to you?

02:57Or can I touch you?

02:58She says, yes.

02:59That's what your character demands

03:01and that's how the scene is going to be made.

03:04So please go ahead.

03:05And then from there,

03:06I felt very comfortable.

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