‘I needed to reinvent myself’
Ayushmann Khurrana, known for playing North-Indian roles on-screen, will be seen as a Maharashtrian in a forthcoming biopic Hawaizaada but he says the film is not a conscious effort on his part to change his image. The actor is doing a period drama for the first time.Hawaizaada is based on the life of Indian scientist Shivkar Bapuji Talpade (played by Ayushmann), who is credited to have constructed India's first unmanned plane. “I needed to break my self completely for the role — how I talk, stand and walk. Vibhu played a great role to extract the best from me. The language is different. I love living in the past and nostalgia is something which I love,” he said.
The Government of India has chosen Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya ji and Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna. I am very happy to get this news as I consider these two personalities as global gems. I have heard many great things about Malaviya ji from my father| lata Mangeshkar
Superstar Rajinikanth, who is shocked over the death of legendary filmmaker K Balachander, said he always treated him like his father and not just as his mentor. Balachander, 84, died at a private hospital following prolonged illness and age-related ailments. Popularly known as KB, he was instrumental in launching the careers of Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth. “KB sir was not just my guru. He was my father as well. He also never saw me as an actor and treated me like his own son. He was like a god in human form and I feel lost in his absence,” Rajinikanth said.
Eddie had sleepless nights
Actor Eddie Redmayne says he had sleepless nights for nine months worrying about what Stephen Hawking would think of his performance in the recent film depicting the physicist. Eddie played Hawking in The Theory of Everything, which was about the relationship between the physicist and his wife. When asked how scared he was while he was making the movie, he said, “Terrified. I'd met Stephen and he was never going to say, ‘I'm thrilled you're doing this, you're going to be amazing.’ It was nine months of sleepless nights, thinking, ‘Will he like itIJ',” he said. However, it was all for nothing as Hawking reported to the director James Marsh that it was like watching himself in moments in the film.