It’s an interesting role as I got to pick up on the Bihari dialect and do something I have never done before. Ali revealed, “I play one of his students from that centre. In ‘Super 30’, he will be seen playing Hrithik Roshan’s character, Anand Kumar’s student before he started the Super 30 academy when he was still at a fancier coaching facility. “Whether as an actor or a filmmaker, I hope to be a part of the movies,” he said. He has two more films in the pipeline - ‘Super 30’ with Hrithik Roshan and an Indo-Hollywood film ‘Line of Descent’ with Abhay Deol, Brendan Fraser, Ronit Roy and Neeraj Kabi.Īpart from acting, he is also pursuing filmmaking as a career. I as his co-actor felt at ease that helped me express myself better,” he said.Īli does not want to stop at just one film but to leave an impact on the film industry.

He makes the environment very easy for his co-actors. I was excited, a little nervous at the start but as we started to do workshops together, there was a nice tempo set between Kunal, Vandana and I. “Kunal has a prolific body of films, he’s done ‘Rang De Basanti’ which is one of my favourite films. I won't call it a breakout role but I’m excited to be back on the screen after so many years.”Īli also spoke in detail about his co-star Kunal Kapoor. Now its all emotional, intelligent you have to use all of yourself and be completely present. You just have to say your lines, memorise them. Was this a breakout role for him as he leads it instead of play a superstar’s child? He answered, “This is very different from all that I have done in my acting career because as a kid your process is very different. You can’t really get there without somebody leading you.”Ī post shared by Ali Haji on at 3:59am PST × It was a challenge to find within a sinister, dark side, which you didn’t know you had.

He said, “While training, the challenge was about tapping into unfamiliar, dark places inside of myself - to put yourself in the shoes of somebody who is going through everything that they are going through. I can look back at certain instances throughout my childhood, through things that happened to my friends or colleagues that I can now pinpoint and say was inappropriate.”ĭeveloping a style of his own, Ali undertook extensive workshops to get the character right for this film. He said, “I always knew bullying was a prevalent issue, it’s only through doing this film I understand that bullying is way broader in its scope than what we understand it to be. From ‘Ta Ra Rum Pum’ with Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji, ‘Partner’ with Salman Khan and Lara Dutta, to a boy who takes on bullying Ali said that his comeback film has a learning that all of us need.

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