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Bollywood actors Akshay Kumar, Tiger Shroff on their Eid film, ‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’ in Dubai
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2/17/2025
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Good afternoon, this is Manjusha Radhakrishnan from Gulf News and Eid has come a day early
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for us with two of the biggest action stars of Bollywood.
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They are the most disciplined, talented and prolific.
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Both of them come out with movies and they look amazing together.
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Firstly, Akshay and Taiga, I am so happy that there are two heroes in this movie and Prithviraj
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as well as a super villain.
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So good to see actors come together.
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Do you think this is how it should be, how Bollywood should function?
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Any would should function.
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Whether it's Hollywood or Bollywood or any would.
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Every would should function.
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They all should be together and that is how you create a furniture.
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A furniture?
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Did you just call your movie a furniture?
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Everything.
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This is like a mansion, honey.
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I'll take whatever.
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Only after the release, we'll come to know how big a mansion or how small a showroom
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it is.
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So that is how it is.
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If you look at films like Avengers and all, we get so happy when we see all our favourite
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heroes together.
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Do that.
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I think people should do it in our industry also.
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We should come out with lot of 3-3, 2-2, 4-4, 5-5 heroes.
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The more the merrier, I think.
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If it is required.
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If it's required, yeah.
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I was saying in the 90s, I remember sir's films.
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Sir used to do with Sunil Shetty sir.
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John Abraham.
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There you go, John Abraham.
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All sir's biggest hits, back-to-back hits, because as fans, we like to see our heroes
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together bring in an even bigger package.
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Right.
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And Tiger, you have also acted with Hrithik Roshan.
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It's not that he hasn't done it.
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There's a lot of bromance between you two, such brotherhood.
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I feel there's zero rivalry, which is not easy, right?
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Is it because of your wise nature, sir?
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And you, because at, in your 30s, you're what, 34?
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I'm 33 now, yes.
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You're 33, and you're turning 54?
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57.
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57.
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You look so good.
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The most good-looking 50-year-old we have seen.
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Yeah, 100%.
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It's true.
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So, no competition between you two, huh?
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Competing is not good.
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I don't believe in competition.
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You know, yesterday only, we had gone to this BAPS temple in Abu Dhabi, and there the Swamiji
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was telling us, you remember this?
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No, sir.
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About competition.
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Yaad dilao bhaji.
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Yeah, yeh, bulao dam, ki about competition, that, I, I, I,
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Oh, there's no such thing as healthy competition, correct?
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Yes.
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Correct.
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Because that creates, some way or the other, that, some kind of enmity.
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It is always good to be with each other, and do your own job, and do a…
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In this film also, it's not that how many somersaults, or how many kicks he's done,
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or how many I'm going to do, it's all togetherness.
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Everything works togetherness.
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And films run if you are together.
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Yes.
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If the energies are together.
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So we've not, we, I cannot also speak for him, there's no kind of competition between
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us.
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Right.
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In Jordan, we had come to see you guys shoot for the song, and I just thought, you guys
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were shirtless, we were layered in seven layers.
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What a fantastic, you both kept your cool, and it was freezing.
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But you were like, totally okay with it.
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Do you think actors somewhere should be paid so much for that?
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That day, I had such immense respect for you two, because it's not easy to be that cold
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and pretend to be happy, you know, dancing atop a cliff.
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We were not pretending, we were happy.
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Yeah, we were happy.
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Where do you get a job, where you get a first class ticket, and you go and you fly to an
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amazing place like Jordan, where they had shot Star Wars, and then we get shoot there.
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There are 300 people taking care of you.
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You ask for food, you get food, garam garam khana mil jata hai, rotiya mil jati hai.
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So, don't you think so we should be thankful and we should be very, very happy?
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We were very happy about it.
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Actually, you were not pretending, you were not faking it.
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You were like totally having fun.
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And he was enjoying it because he loves dancing.
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Yeah, yeah.
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He loves dancing.
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And I think that's why sir and me were warm also, because it was like a cardio session
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throughout the days for us.
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Yeah.
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Right, what's the weirdest stunt that you pulled off?
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Because the trailer is filled with crazy stunts.
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Did you guys have to pep each other up and say, listen, I know it's dangerous, but we
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can do this together?
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Was there a scene that you thought was challenging?
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There are some love scenes inside, but abhi tak picture release nahi hai, so there's no
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point of us telling you about it.
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But the article will release only tomorrow, after the movie is out.
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Haan, so there are many stunts, there are helicopter stunts, there are motorbike stunts,
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there are ghoda chalane ka hai.
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And all these things are there, there are a lot of things inside.
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For me, I think I can speak for sir also, we're not very good at night shoots, you know,
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because we both sleep early.
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So there's a particular mission in the film, which was shot in the night.
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And to doing upalse, we had to do action also, when we're both half asleep.
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So we had to really push each other.
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That was the time we were very unhappy.
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Listen, how important are reviews for you, especially with a movie like this?
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Because superhero movies don't get great reviews, but they do great business.
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See, I'll tell you, I'll be very grateful to the critics to remember, yes, this is larger
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than life film.
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This is not a, arre aisa thodi hota hai.
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Yes, I'm right, you're right, absolutely right, aisa nahi hota hai.
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But the amount of work has gone in the film, I would just ask them and request them to
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please appreciate it.
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Even a film, an action Bollywood film, where you see Avengers ho chahiye, aisa nahi hota
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hai.
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But still, we respect the fact that what kind of work goes through.
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You will, when you will watch the film, you will understand what I'm trying to tell you,
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that there's so much of work gone into it.
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And especially the work done by my director, hats off to him, Ali.
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He has done a tremendous job.
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I have seen all the Hindi cinema films in my life, from Black and White till today.
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I can tell you this much.
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And I tell you with, not because it's my film, it is one of the finest action film you will
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No, that's amazing to know.
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And you both are so disciplined.
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Do you guys one day wake up and say, you know what, I'm having a bad day.
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I'm not going to do it.
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Does it ever happen with you too?
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Because I was just talking to a friend.
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You guys look so good.
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Do you exercise?
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I don't.
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No, no, you were saying?
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I don't exercise.
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As you can see from me.
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I was not saying it.
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What did you say when you get up in the morning?
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Is there a bad day for, gym day for both of you?
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Do you?
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Like one day, I don't want to do weights.
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I don't want to eat burgers.
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You know, I think that's the day that I think we push ourselves even harder to sort of get
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over it.
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Because, you know, the moment something gets boring, it's for me, at least my personal
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opinion is that you're doing the right thing.
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Consistency is something that is very difficult to do.
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Eating the same things again, doing the same motions again, going through the same routine,
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exercising, waking up at the same time, following a pattern again and again, it's boring.
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But at the same time, that's, you know, that's when you eventually know you're doing something
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right when it gets boring.
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Is what I believe in.
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For me, I'll break it.
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Break it?
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Yeah, I'll break it.
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I mean, basically, I'll sit in front of the TV.
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But that's quite a surprise.
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Akshay, in the Bombay trailer you said you did some weird stunts back in the, in like
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say, earlier in your life.
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And now you won't do all those dangerous stunts.
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Have you become more careful?
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Do you guys get into the set knowing that today could be like, Tom Cruise does his own
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stunts, right?
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You also try as much as you can.
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Do you guys always, are you very respectful of your craft while doing these stunts, like?
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Yes, you have to be very careful.
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It doesn't matter how big a stunt, anything can happen, even jumping from this table down.
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I have seen accidents happening.
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From this table, somebody jumping and he had broken the ankle and the ankle has been broken
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and for six months you can't walk properly.
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Just from here.
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Biggest stunt people whom I know are dead, who died because of just small accident and
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small mistakes.
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Small stunts they were doing, there was this guy, I'm forgetting his name, he was Hollywood's
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best action hero, this thing, stuntman.
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He was doing a skit and he didn't see, ek udhar khamba tha, his head hit and he died.
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Yeah, so you guys are aware every day.
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So you have to be aware of everything and every, it doesn't matter, there can be, there's
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a light up there, it can fall on your head.
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Right, did you, last question, did you ask director Alia Baz Zafar about your roles first
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and what was his brief to you?
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Because there are two heroes, right, you guys have to be different from each other.
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There has to be, your strength is different from his strength, usually two hero projects.
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What was his brief to you?
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What was it?
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He just gave us Bad Boys script.
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Is this Bollywood's answer to Bad Boys?
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Tell me that, I enjoy that movie tremendously.
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Actually, I'll tell you honestly, yes, I don't mind saying it is one of the best film in
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India has produced and this is the answer for Bad Boys.
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Really?
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Yes.
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We are going to get it, I think, brilliant.
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I can't wait for you guys to kill it on screen and I hope Prithviraj also makes a great villain.
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Oh, he is fantastic.
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He is wonderful.
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No, a movie is as good as its super villain, super villain, super heroes have to be both
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together.
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Well, he is more than a super hero, super villain, more than that.
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Okay, brilliant.
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Thank you so much for your time, such a pleasure, I hope the movie does well and happy Eid.
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I am telling you people will be so excited because we have a seven day break, so you
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have already guys made the money.
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