MUMBAI :Actor Aditya Roy Kapur likes to be prepared for his roles in advance but while working with filmmaker Anurag Basu in Ludo, it was a different ball game together. The actor said that Anurag likes to give dialogues to the actors just a few hours before the shoot except in case of a heavy-duty scene.
During an interview with The Film Companion, Aditya said that as a storyteller Anurag likes to “keep you a little bit off-kilter”.
“I think he wants to keep you a little bit off kilter so that you come on set and do something that you both had not pre-ordained. I think that can only happen if the actor hasn’t had too much time to plan something and plot what they’re going to do. So, it was one of the beautiful things about Ludo. It took a couple of days to get used to. I normally like to have done all my work…,” he said.
Ludo was a black comedy crime film written and directed by Anurag Basu. In the intervew, Aditya opened up about Anurag’s working process.
“In Ludo’s case, there was not (a bound script). It was all in his (Anurag) head but I got the story synopsis. So, I knew what everyone else’s track was and my track. It was a synopsis not a dialogue draft. There were indicative dialogues. So, as an actor, you are trying to glean as much as you can from that limited database,” he said.
Aditya Roy Kapur also shared that Anurag Basu likes to spend time with actors and give synopses elaborate enough for the actor to understand but the dialogues don’t come in until morning.
“They (dialogues) come in the morning. During makeup, the door opens and the guy says, ‘Garam garam scene aaya hai sir’ and I am like, ‘Give me the bloody scene and get out!’ But on big days, the dialogues would come the night before,” Aditya shared.
However, that’s not the case every time as the actor said, “So he is not doing this to torture you. Like I was playing a ventriloquist in the film and there is some really tricky stuff. I had to do a few sequences where it was me and the puppet. For those scenes, he gave the dialogues the night before, that definitely helped.”
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