{"id":11490,"date":"2023-02-09T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=11490"},"modified":"2023-02-07T15:11:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T09:41:12","slug":"producers-panicked-when-anurag-kashyap-told-big-b-to-tone-down-his-amitabh-bachchan-wali-acting-yeh-show-band-karwayega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2023\/02\/09\/producers-panicked-when-anurag-kashyap-told-big-b-to-tone-down-his-amitabh-bachchan-wali-acting-yeh-show-band-karwayega\/","title":{"rendered":"Producers panicked when Anurag Kashyap told Big B to tone down his ‘Amitabh Bachchan wali acting’: “Yeh show band karwayega.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anurag Kashyap recalled what he described as a ‘kamaal ka kissa’ about working with Amitabh Bachchan on the television show Yudh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amitabh Bachchan and Anurag Kashyap worked together on the television show Yudh and the short film Murabba.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap<\/a><\/strong> recalled directing Amitabh Bachchan to tone down his performance while they were working on the television show Yudh, and said that this made the producers nervous about whether the acting icon had taken offence and would drop out of the show in anger. Anurag served as the creative director on Yudh, and went on to work with Amitabh again on his short film Murabba, which was a part of the Bombay Talkies anthology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with The Lallantop, he recalled the \u2018kamaal ka kissa\u2019 and narrated what went down. He said that he told Amitabh to tone down the Amitabh-ness of his performance, and make it more realistic. \u201cWoh criticism bohot ache se lete hain. Wahan Amitabh Bachchan wali acting ho rahi thi, aur maine unko bola, \u2018Sir, yeh nahi chahiye, yeh toh aankh band karke bhi Amitabh Bachchan kaisi acting karta hai dekh sakta hoon. Real karna hai\u2019<\/em>\u00a0(He takes criticism well. I noticed that he was delivering a typical Amitabh Bachchan-style performance, and I wanted something more real, and this is what I told him).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anurag said that Amitabh asked for some time, and during that period, the producers became nervous. \u201cUnhone bola thoda samay do, aur woh wahin baith gaye. Aur usme sab sakpaka gaye, producers wagehra, bolte ke yeh toh band karwayega show<\/em>\u00a0(He asked for some time, and didn\u2019t leave. And the producers became jittery, they thought I\u2019d get the show shut down).\u201d They confronted Anurag about it, and Anurag said that he was just being forthright, and was willing to apologise to Amitabh if he felt bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some time later, Anurag said, Amitabh let out a loud laugh because he\u2019d remembered a story about the film Abhimaan, and being very impressed with the dialogues in that film. Anurag told him that he\u2019s here to help him, and that Amitabh\u2019s performance \u2018flipped\u2019 instantly. \u201cTransformation hogaya unka<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anurag said that Amitabh is the \u2018rare actor\u2019 who doesn\u2019t sit behind the monitor on set. He could tell if Anurag was pleased with the shot just by looking at his face. \u201cHe is a very secure person, in this regard,\u201d Anurag said. He also revealed that his friend and fellow filmmaker Zoya Akhtar actually reprimanded Amitabh for being late to set once, when she was working as an AD on her brother Farhan Akhtar\u2019s war movie Lakshya. She told him that everybody was ready and that he was holding them up. Jokingly, Amitabh dubbed Zoya and Reema Kagti as the \u2018Gurkha brigade\u2019 and would deliberately be a couple of minutes late just to annoy them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anurag\u2019s latest release, Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat, debuted in theatres last week to mixed reviews. Amitabh was last seen in the film Uunchai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anurag Kashyap recalled what he described as a ‘kamaal ka kissa’ about working with Amitabh Bachchan on the television show Yudh. Amitabh Bachchan and Anurag Kashyap worked together on the television show Yudh and the short film Murabba. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap recalled directing Amitabh Bachchan to tone down his performance while they were working on the television …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11492,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions\/11492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}