Actor Jaideep Ahlawat said that he is unable to watch himself on screen because he is often disappointed by his own performances. But, he admitted that he made the time for his hit Prime Video series Paatal Lok, and also Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi. In a new interview, the actor said that he got around to watching Paatal Lok two full months after its release, and agreed to watch Raazi only because Meghna and star Alia Bhatt threatened him.
In a conversation with his Jaane Jaan co-star Saurabh Sachdeva, Jaideep spoke about his experience on Raazi, and said that for the first time in his life, he began having nightmares because of work. “It’s normal to be affected by work. With me, I started having nightmares during Raazi for the first time ever. I never used to have nightmares. But because I was so entrenched in the world of espionage at the time, because I had read up so much on the subject, I got scared. For the first time in my life, I would wake up with a start at night. I would see people running from guns and bombs.” he said in Hindi.
He said that he hasn’t seen almost 80% of his finished work. “I watched Raazi only after Meghna and Alia threatened to block my number. I went for the fourth screening,” he said, recalling an anecdote from set. He said that on the final day of filming a schedule in Patiala, they were running out of time and he had to perform a close-up shot. Meghna Gulzar couldn’t watch it on the monitor, and he was told that they would shoot three different takes and were confident that he would nail it. He said that the pressure put him in a different gear.
Raazi emerged as a critical and commercial success, and kick-started Alia’s reign as her generation’s biggest female star in Bollywood. She played a spy in the film, while Jaideep played her handler. He last appeared in Jaane Jaan, directed by Sujoy Ghosh and co-starring Vijay Varma and Kareena Kapoor Khan.
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‘Alia Bhatt threatened to block my number if…’: Jaideep Ahlawat says working on Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi gave him nightmares – The Indian Express
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