Actor Bobby Deol’s 55th birthday celebrations this year are going to bigger than ever, considering the success he received with Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal. While the actor has several good films to his credit, his debut film Barsaat is remembered to this day. The actor set several fashion and dance trends with the film, but the film’s road to release was not a smooth one. Bobby said that the film, which was supposed to be directed by Shekhar Kapur, took four years to release after the filmmaker walked out of the film.
Shekhar had received an offer to direct Bandit Queen at the time and left the shooting just 27 days after it had commenced. Bobby said that the changes in the script left him frustrated. The delay took so much toll on the actor that his superstar father Dharmendra had to step in and have a dialogue with Shekhar.
Speaking at Jagran Film Festival, Bobby said, “I started shooting for the film very early and Shekhar Kapur was the director. We shot for the film for 27 days. He then got an offer from Hollywood to make Bandit Queen. Shekhar said, ‘I will do Bandit Queen and come back to do Barsaat,’ But my father told him that he didn’t want to delay it. He told Shekhar, ‘You go do your film, I will find somebody else.’ And I think Rajkumar Santoshi was waiting to direct my film. I got lucky with him.”
However, with a new director on board, several changes were made in the script, leaving him in a state of confusion and exhaustion. “I was 26 when my film was released, I was 22 when I started shooting for it. After Shekhar left I had to wait for a year or so for the shooting to start again. Even then it took two years to make. The script kept changing. I took up running, playing drums, bike riding and other things to fit into different character requirements according to the changes in the script. It was frustrating,” he said.
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The film, which co-starred Twinkle Khanna, was shot in several national and international locations like London, Manali and Italy. During one of the shots, Bobby is seen fighting with a tiger. The actor revealed that to get the shot perfectly, the team tied piece of meat on the actor’s shoulder and shot with a trained Siberian tiger.
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While talking to Mashable India, the actor recalled the action sequence and said, “We shot it in Italy. We learnt there was someone who had trained Siberian tigers. He had a small zoo of his own. I did the fight with the tiger there. They had just trimmed his nails. They would have a piece of meat close to my neck so the tiger jumps on you and goes for the meat. I had to stop him with my hand. His paws were so heavy that when he would get tired, he would place his paws on me and I would get pushed down.”
Bobby’s career choices also includes films like Gupt: The Hidden Truth, Soldier, Dillagi, Ajnabi and many others. Interestingly, the actor now seems keen to explore film industries in the south. Bobby will be seen in Suriya’s Tamil period film Kanguva and Telugu films Hari Hara Veeru Mallu and Nandamuri Balakrishna’s next.
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