Late actor Sushant Singh Rajput lived together with his character Ishaan for 4 months earlier than getting on the units to shoot Kai Po Che. As his debut Bollywood movie completes 8 years on Monday, we glance again on the making of the Abhishek Kapoor directorial that launched on at the present time in 2013.
Also starring then newbies Amit Sadh and Rajkummar Rao, Kai Po Che is customized from Chetan Bhagat’s bestselling novel The 3 Mistakes of My Life.
In the behind-the-scenes video, Sushant shared how he received immersed in enjoying the function of Ishaan, a failed cricketer within the film. “I’ve been thinking about Ishaan 90 percent of the time, for the past four months. Nowadays, it seems that I’ve started living and thinking like him. It is not that it happened because of this reason or that reason. It just happened,” Sushant shared within the video.
Actors Sushant Singh Rajput, Amit Sadh and Rajkummar Rao, together with director Abhishek Kapoor and producer Siddharth Roy Kapur, whereas selling Kai Po Che. (Photo: Express Archives)
He additional defined his character as, “My character of Ishaan is a cricketer, impulsive, transparent, and not a hypocrite. So you’ll find very less people like him who are clean at heart. He’s a very interesting character and I loved playing him.”
Sushant, who died on June 14, 2020, entered Bollywood with Kai Po Che, after enjoying the fan favorite function of Manav in hit TV present Pavitra Rishta.
Sushant went on to do motion pictures like Shuddh Desi Romance, PK, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy, Raabta, M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, Kedarnath, Chhichhore and Sonchiriya. His final onscreen look was in Dil Bechara which launched submit his demise on Disney+ Hotstar final yr.
Sushant was conferred the critic’s finest actor (male) on the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards, posthumously for his excellent contribution to Hindi cinema.