Abhishek Bachchan on playing Harshad Mehta: We haven’t tried to whitewash him | BollywoodNews and Indian Movies news | FilmiRangeela.in

In early 2019, Abhishek Bachchan’s neighbour-friend Ajay Devgn called him to discuss a film he was producing. “He calls me only when he knows something is special. He is like an elder brother. Out of my love and respect for him, it’ll be a blind yes,” begins Bachchan, recounting how director Kookie Gulati, writer Arjun Dhawan, Devgn and he came together to create the world of The Big Bull, and its principal character Hemant Shah. “Kookie had a clear vision about the journey of a man with big dreams. He wanted it to be an emotional journey for the audience rather than [delving] into the technicalities of the story.” A still from Scam 1992 But a fictional narrative inspired by the life of stockbroker Harshad Mehta poses a cardinal problem — how does one maintain the character’s essence while being careful not to glorify him? “I don’t know if the moral responsibility of the subject [rests with] the writers. Storytellers shouldn’t bother with morality. When the producers, actors and the director step in, that’s when the moral responsibility steps in. I was clear in my initial discussions that if Hemant is aspirational, he also has to be shown as a flawed man. Hemant initially lives in a chawl, and then owns an apartment with a swimming pool in the balcony. He is so taken in by the world he has created. He has human frailties, and I like the fact that he slips. We have not tried to whitewash him. The audience has come of age, and wants our heroes to be real and flawed.” Harshad Mehta Hansal Mehta’s Scam 1992, centred on the same subject and starring Pratik Gandhi in the lead, took the nation by storm last year. Bachchan knows that topping it will be a tough act. “All my life, I have been compared to the best in the business. It doesn’t frazzle me,” smiles the star son. True to his generous nature, Bachchan says he loved Scam 1992. “It’s such a well-made show. But in terms of design and intention, series and movies are different disciplines. A web series has the liberty of time, and hence, will have depth and detail. In cinema, you have to make the story pacy. The two shouldn’t be comparable.”

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