Bhuvan Bam’s “funniest” celebrity encounter

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Bhuvan Bam talked to Brut about trying Jackie Shroff’s viral recipe and how a call with Javed Jaaferi led to a show together.

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00:00I was one of the people who had tasted his Kadhipatta while he was making it in the vanity.

00:05This Kadhipatta fry was put on top of the egg.

00:08Yeah, it's nice.

00:12Hi, this is Bhuvan Bam and you're watching me on Root.

00:15A lot of actors of late have been complaining that when they go to auditions,

00:19casting directors ask them, how many followers do you have?

00:22They say that influencers are kind of taking over the acting space.

00:26How do you react to that?

00:29I mean, from a producer's point of view, I think it's a call that I understand.

00:36That everyone wants footfalls in theatres.

00:39And that's why they ask you how many followers you have.

00:42But I feel the people who genuinely want to make cinema,

00:45they never go for petty things like this.

00:49If you are talented enough, then it will automatically pull the audiences to the theatres

00:54and to the platforms.

00:56But yeah, I've never personally faced the follower fiasco.

01:05I'm very much up to give auditions.

01:09And I'm very eager to give auditions in life.

01:12When I had started my journey on YouTube,

01:16I had never imagined that I'll make a show or a movie, ever.

01:21That was not the goal.

01:24I just wanted to put out a joke in front of some people, a few people,

01:28apart from my friends.

01:30And that's how BB Ki Vines came into being.

01:33But it got picked up in every other country except India.

01:37And that made me even more greedy.

01:41Because I wanted people from India to watch what I wanted to show them.

01:45But it happened.

01:49People kept on joining the channel.

01:53And then I decided that if I need to make it big,

01:57then I need to concentrate on a long format concept.

02:01And that's how Dhindora, my first ever show, came into being.

02:04And from there, I thought that it will be a great step

02:09to pursue an acting career, a full-time acting career.

02:14And that's how Taza Khabar happened.

02:16And it just fell into my bag.

02:17I called JJ sir up.

02:19And I told him, this is Bhuvan.

02:21And I'm a big fan.

02:23Whatever we say to the icons,

02:27I told him, sir, we've made a mistake.

02:31We've done the dubbing this year for Takeshi's reboot.

02:36And he was pretty chill about it.

02:38And that's where I knew.

02:40And that's the call when I asked him out.

02:43Legit, I asked him out.

02:46Legit, I asked him out.

02:47Sir, would you go on a shoot schedule with me?

02:49And he graciously agreed.

02:51He didn't even ask for a script.

02:53He didn't even ask for a script.

02:54We keep telling everyone to ask for a script.

02:56He read the script.

02:57But sir is a sweetheart.

02:59He just said yes to it.

03:00Did you have a fanboy moment with him?

03:02Yeah.

03:03The first day he was on set, he was eating chickpeas.

03:06And he was like, will you eat chickpeas?

03:08I was like, no, sir.

03:09I've memorized the dialogue from Mushkil.

03:12So let's say the dialogue today.

03:14What's been your funniest celebrity encounter?

03:17I met Jackie Shroff, sir.

03:20I met him.

03:22I told him that I want to see you.

03:24So he's like, yeah, come.

03:26So I went to one of his sets.

03:28He was shooting in Mumbai only.

03:30I went there.

03:31And then that Kadhipatta thing that he's getting viral.

03:36Aaj kal, a few months ago.

03:38That reel of him went viral of Kadhipatta.

03:40I was one of the people who had tasted his Kadhipatta.

03:45While he was making it in the vanity.

03:47He was like, eat it, eat it.

03:48How is it?

03:49How is it?

03:50I was like, yeah, it's nice.

03:52It was bad.

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