20 years after the much-loved fantasy comedy Jajantaram Mamantaram was launched, Jaaved Jaffrey remembers taking pictures with matchsticks as an alternative of individuals.
Talking with The Hindustan Times, the beloved actor stated, “The whole movie was very heavy on VFX and I needed to shoot all the factor in entrance of the blue display screen.”
“The troublesome half was to behave with no actors in entrance. There have been little matchsticks or picket items positioned right here and there for the cue, and I needed to ship dialogues by these objects,” he added.
The Dhamaal actor continues, “For example, if the movie exhibits a dwarf sitting on my shoulder, I used to be speaking to the matchstick positioned on my shoulder. The one time I had an actor in entrance of me was through the climax, the place I struggle with Jhamunda. That’s as a result of we each had been of the identical dimension.”
He additionally recalled getting injured through the filming, “The harm occurred once I slipped off a field that I used to be standing on and tore the meniscus of my knee. It took lots of time to recuperate and it nonetheless hurts,”
The 59-year-old revealed that he stated sure to the film as a result of it gave an Indian twist to the beloved youngsters’s story Gulliver’s Travels “That’s a narrative all of us have grown up listening to.”
He concluded by saying that youngsters nonetheless discuss with him by his title from the film, which was Aditya. “That is occurring after 20 years so it positively feels good,” he added.