The stand-up comedian graduates to hero status this year. In a goofy interview, he told Shana Maria Verghis he's playing roles like a sardarji in Punjab and a slacker confused by zombies.
Apparently he did pot in college and will prepare for superstardom by churning peanut butter, scaring donkeys and adding weather prediction to his hobby list
He was busy filming in Chandigarh with Boman Irani for Santa Banta, which releases in October. It seems the two of them now don pagadis and have “been working on our Punjabi dialect with a voice coach.” Neither of them is from there. Boman’s Parsi. Vir’s “from UP.”
“The movie has nothing to do with Santa Banta jokes. It’s about the origin of the characters,” explained the actor-stand up, who has lots of releases, including two in which he plays lead.
Meanwhile the promotion for Go Goa Gone is hotting up. He plays a slacker in this, and another film. Post Delhi Belly, he’s slipping into a character-type first made popular in the West by Jeff Bridges.
He explained that the zombie flick, co-scripted by Kunal Khemu, is actually “about people who meet a zombie and are confused, rather than scared.” He added, “They kill it in a very typical Indian way that I will not tell you.”
Incidentally his band Alien Chutney is singing a track on the album and also appears on another film in which he stars, Amit Sahni Ki list. And he appears as hero in Super Se Ooper, with Kirti Kulhari, as well as Revolver Rani with Kangna Ranaut.
Since he’s moving “from character to lead,” how’s he preparingIJ “I’m milking donkeys, churning peanut butter and have taken up weather prediction,” he replied.
As for dancing, he’s no Salman, but he does have a musical side to him.Apparently we will see a dark side to him this year too, probably in Shaadi Ke Side Effects. If we got the name of the movie right.
Because he’s doing “twisted love stories,” and “straight commercial ones.” The band is still together. Alien Chutney we mean. And he will be having a new stage show.
We said that since he’s become a screen star, he has become very gentle while doing a satire on Bollywood in his stand-up. But he disagrees. “I don’t think so. If you think that I’m gentler.”