Actor Abhishek Bachchan, who has worked in films like “Yuva”, “Guru” and “Ravana” with filmmaker Mani Ratnam, said the director has challenged the actors at the point where something easily emerges.

Abhishek Bachchan talks about Mani Ratnam

Bachchan was speaking about Ratnam during the G5A retrospective of the acclaimed filmmaker. “I realized during ‘youth’ that Mani likes to push you into a corner as an actor. He will work hard to you and will continue to move you until something comes comfortable. Like, you are retake , You will do and you are tired, he would like, ‘Great, fantastic.

“So, he is always searching, he is not sad. He likes to make you uncomfortable so that something becomes very honest,” Bachchan posts “Ravana” screening.

The actor first worked with Ratnam in the 2004 political drama “Yuva” in 2004, in which he played a goon named Lallan Singh. He reunited for the 2007 drama “Guru”, who earned a significant praise to Bachchan for his performance as a villager, which became an ambitious industrialist.

Ratnam then cast the actor as an opponent in the 2010 “Ravana”, a modern retailing of the epic Ramayana.

Bachchan said that he only has memories of working with the filmmaker. It was a separate graph in ‘Guru’, but he finds his amazing ways to throw his spin on it. From there, you go to ‘Ravana’. Seeing the film again, so many memories came back.

“The biggest testimony for him and not because he is sitting here, when you can go back and even after 15 or 20 years, watch the film and smile looking at the memories. We have amazing memories working with him. Camera And off camera, and this is his biggest testimony as a person. “

Citing this example, how Ratnam pushes his actors to give his best even in extreme situations, Bachchan recalled a sequence on “Ravana”, which also acted by his wife Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The actor said that one day when he reached the set, a lightman jumped down to take a wire and accidentally picked up a cobra.

“In the midst of all this, Aishwarya went into Florence Nightingale mode and said, ‘Where is the anti-venom because if you are picking up snakes then something is beaten?’ “He opened fire on the on-set doctor, and said, ‘I am going to tell Mani about it’. The doctor came and said, ‘Is anti-venom? If a cobra bites you, you are dead before you can say anything. And Mani is like Sir, ‘Let’s shoot’. ,

Director Vijay Krishna Acharya, who served as a dialogue writer on “Guru” and “Ravana”, said he praises Ratnam’s drive to find new things.

“The joy of working with Mani is that you should be ready to do something new. We finish something and if there is any idea that makes it better, then you should be able to swing and change with it And the biggest trick is to find a new way to do something, “Acharya said.

Ratnam’s frequent colleague and cinematographer Santosh Shivan said that Ratnam had adapted well for technological progress in cinema. “He has the ability to extract a lot from those who work with him, whether an actor or cinematographers. He is updated because when we talk, he talks about anything other than literature, painting or gossip Does.

“We discuss a lot before every film. He has always been curious about new development, and has not allowed anything to change his thinking, he hugged VFX very well,” Sivan said.

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