Ali Fazal, who is currently shooting for Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Milan Talkies, is a director’s actor. Recently, the roles got reversed on the sets and Ali became the director for a scene.
The Victoria and Abdul actor just turned director on the sets of the film to understand his character better. Ali plays a director in the film that revolves around the single screen cinemas that have been dying out. To get into director mode, he wanted to direct a scene and look at all the aspects from the background actors, the dialogue delivery, the ambient sound, the cinematography to learn for his reel life job. The actor has always been one to delve deep into a character and this time was no different.
Talking about how it felt directing, the actor said, “I can’t quite reveal which part of the film I worked upon or that part will or will not be in the film but I can say this- I have learnt many trades on a Tigmanshu Dhulia set. My saying this might piss a lot of people off but I am not anxious about what the fateful Friday will bring to us because this experience this journey has been a personal one for me. It is diff for each actor and artist and so was mine. Each to his/her. For me, the fun has just begun. It’s like when u learn to do something and then u just can’t wait to do it again and again. But I wish the team well because everyone’s sweat and muscle went into the making of Milan Talkies.”
Milan Talkies has been years in the making, initially, the film was supposed to release in 2015.
Produced by PS Chhatwal and Prakash Bhatt, the film is set to release in 2018.