There is no way you can do anything if your co-actors are not vibing on the same plane. There was this understanding among all of us that this is your moment to shine and that mine, of who can do what within the frame. She comes on time, is fully ready, carries a pen and a paper, wants to make notes and she wants to go first. She is like one of those really sincere student kind of a person. Though your scenes with Alia Bhatt aren’t too many, how was it working with her? He finds great strength from them and that’s how he is able to give strength to so many other people. He is constantly in touch with people who are his support system. I have seen him video-calling his sister, FaceTiming Deepika. She doesn’t talk about it because she feels her films are doing it for her.Īs for Ranveer, he is an extremely anchored person. Zoya doesn’t usually give that vibe but she is a deeply political filmmaker-not the government or party kind of political but more like social political in how she wants the world to be seen in her films. What’s the one thing people do not know about Ranveer and Zoya? Read: Film on PM Narendra Modi Has Given Me Sleepless Nights, Says Producer Sandip Ssingh Read: There is Nothing More Democratic or Patriotic than Parody, Says Vir Das We would all brainstorm over what and how we were finally going to shoot. It happened because both of us were working so beautifully with each other and because of Zoya’s clear insight into who Moeen and Murad are and what their exchanges will be like. Murad and Moeen are two very different kinds of people and their friendship is very unlikely. Your chemistry with Ranveer in the film is so palpable. He has given me key inputs and it was sheer joy to feed off each other’s energies. In fact, I was only pleasantly surprised to find how accommodating Ranveer was. I knew that my character had some definite contribution to the story which can’t be compromised, that he has his own graph. If you look at Zoya’s filmography, she has always had ensembles and she has always dealt with every character so beautifully. Right now, I think a lot of filmmakers will start seeing me in a new light.ĭid you have any apprehensions before you began shooting with a star like Ranveer Singh? It never really reached out to a lot of people.īut when you do a film which has a very wide reach, more people start seeing you differently. I am not the kind of person who can really show what he has done. It was very important because I had been doing good work, which was getting appreciated but in very small pockets because it never got seen widely. How important was it to do a film with a popular mainstream director like Zoya Akhtar? I have had physical confrontations with my father. I am feeling very good.ĭid you, at some point, have a conversation with your father like Murad did in the film? It’s my nephews and nieces who are coming back home and telling them about me. My family is completely alienated-no smartphones, no internet-they are just very basic people in Hyderabad. But now that the film is such a major success and people are talking about you, do you feel validated? Are they on board now? Your parents didn’t want you to be an actor. Though they took forever, but I finally did get the confirmation call. But I was called again for a meeting with Zoya, who shot me in a couple of more scenes. It stars Tabu, Ishaan Khatter, Tanya Maniktala, and Rasika Dugal.Through an audition. In 2020, Vijay Varma appeared as Rasheed in the BBC television drama miniseries A Suitable Boy.
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He has played the dual role of Shatrughan Tyagi and Bharat Tyagi in the Amazon Prime Video Hindi-language action crime thriller series Mirzapur.This role got him nominated at the 26th Screen Awards as well as at the 65th Filmfare Awards in the “Best Supporting Actor” category. Vijay Varma was cast as Moeen Arif in the 2019 Hindi-language musical drama film Gully Boy, a coming-of-age story about an aspiring street rapper from the Dharavi slums of Mumbai.He made his Telugu film debut as Warangal Siva, a gangster who owns Siva Shakti Travels, in the 2017 action comedy film MCA (also known as Middle Class Abbayi).Alongside the likes of Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, Angad Bedi, Tushar Pandey, Vijay Varma co-starred as Ankit Malhotra in the critically-acclaimed Hindi-language legal thriller film Pink in 2016.The film’s lead cast included Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rajkumar Rao, and others. In 2012, he made his Hindi film debut by playing the character named Jhunku (Subodh Roy) in the historical war drama film Chittagong, based upon events of British India’s Chittagong Uprising.Deep-set eyes Vijay Varma playing investigative journalist Jamal Kidwai in the film ‘Raag Desh’ (Winsomemedia / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Vijay Varma Facts