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News18
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Rajkummar Rao On ‘Love' For Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann: ‘We Call, Text Each Other Randomly'
Rajkummar Rao says there's strong 'brotherhood' among him, Vicky Kaushal and Ayushmann Khurrana. He also speaks about his next, Maalik, that sees him in a brand-new avatar. Rajkummar Rao has never shied away from lauding his peers. Often, he takes to social media to cheer for his co-stars for a performance they've fared well in. At the same time, he hasn't had any qualms about sharing screen space with his contemporaries such as Ayushmann Khurrana in Bareilly Ki Barfi and Dulquer Salmaan in Guns & Gulaabs. Now, speaking exclusively to News18 Showsha, Rajkummar reveals that he shares a rather great bond with his peers – Ayushmann and Vicky Kaushal. Interestingly, the trio shares similar non-film backgrounds and has managed to carve a niche for themselves through their own merit, redefining masculinity in modern-day mainstream cinema. 'Ayushmann calls me and I call him at times randomly. We just go, 'Long time. Kaisa hai, bhai? Aise hi soch rahe the ki call kar de.' I believe these bonds are great. There should be camaraderie among contemporaries," Rajkummar tells us. For the unversed, he'll next be seen playing Sourav Ganguly in his biopic after reports suggested that Ayushmann withdrew from the film. In fact, when Rajkummar watched Vicky's Chhaava, he couldn't stop himself from reaching out to him, completely enamoured with the latter's rendition of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj. 'When I saw Chhaava, I messaged Vicky. He also messages me every time he likes a trailer or a film featuring me. We always greet each other very warmly if we bump into each other," he says. On the work front, Rajkummar is awaiting the release of Maalik, that will see him in a brand-new avatar. While he acknowledges that throngs of desi actioners are being made today, he's confident that Maalik will stand out. 'Yes, it's massy and highly commercial with a lot of dialogue-baazi and action but it's still very rooted in its texture. So, what you see onscreen will be believable. You would believe in these characters and the story. It's not a fantasy or make-believe world where just about anything and everything is happening," he explains. The trailer of Maalik has been grabbing attention for its graphic portrayal of violence and sees Rajkummar portray a very different version of masculinity – one in the context of power games and ambition. Talking about it, he says, 'I'm an aware audience and when I see a film, I can differentiate which films are larger-than-life and which ones are way more violent than the others. At the same time, I know it's all for entertainment. As long as I'm entertained and they're done well, I enjoy watching such films." The Bhool Chuk Maaf and Mr & Mrs Mahi actor further continues, 'I'm a big fan of the action genre but there has to be a story in it. It can't just be set pieces of action. A story can't be woven around seven action sequences. It should be the other way around. I'm more interested in seeing the character's arc and journey. Action can be for titillation but there still has to be a solid reason for the same." First Published: July 10, 2025, 04:57 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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Business Standard
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Standard
Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi to start shooting for Farzi 2 from December
Shahid Kapoor's OTT debut with Farzi left audiences hooked, and now, the wait for Season 2 might finally be nearing its end. Fans can rejoice as fresh reports suggest that the much-anticipated second season is set to begin filming this December. Alongside Kapoor, Raashii Khanna and Vijay Sethupathi are expected to reprise their lead roles, promising another gripping ride. The first season was released in early 2023. With 37.1 million views, actor Shahid Kapoor's online series Farzi became the most-watched Hindi web series on Amazon Prime Video in 2023. Filmmakers Raj Nidhimoru and Krishna DK, better known as Raj & DK, created the series. They are also the creators of the popular television shows Guns & Gulaabs and The Family Man. Farzi Season 2 to shoot in Dec 2025 Raj & DK's other Amazon Prime Video series, Citadel: Honey Bunny, is not moving forward with a second season, while The Family Man Season 3 is premiering in late 2025, Shahid Kapoor revealed last year that the second season of Farzi was still in the scripting stage. Now, there are rumours that shooting will start later this year, with a report in Pinkvilla stating that Farzi is scheduled to go on floors in December and that the second season will be released in the second half of 2026. 'The duo of Raj and DK are presently busy with Rakht Brahmand. On calling it a wrap, they will proceed to the pre-production of Farzi 2 and take it on the floors by December. Raj and DK have conducted meetings to discuss the basic trajectory of the sequel with Shahid Kapoor. The Farzi sequel will see a face-off between Shahid Kapoor with Vijay Sethupathi, and Kay Kay Menon," Mid-Day quoted a source as saying. Raashii Khanna, Bhuvan Arora, Zakir Hussain, Amol Palekar, Kubbra Sait, and Regina Cassandra make up the remaining members of the ensemble cast. Michael (Vijay Sethupathi), the leader of the Counterfeiting & Currency Fraud Analysis & Research Team (CCFART), is pursuing artist-turned-counterfeiter Sunny (Shahid Kapoor), and the first season ended on a cliffhanger. After the criminal set his printing machine on fire, Sunny also burned bridges with Mansoor (Kay Kay Menon), the crime lord and former partner.
Khaleej Times
25-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Khaleej Times
'Music is a very emotional way to communicate quickly with people': 'Yo Yo Honey Singh: Famous' music supervisor Alick Sethi
The raw electronic sound that originated in clubs across the UK in the 90s had a way of sending energy pulsing through your body. You felt it in your muscles, you felt it in your bones — that need to thrum along, to tap your feet and move to the beat. Now, picture the same feeling but in response to the rhythmic clapping and free flowing notes of a qawwali, a form of Sufi Islamic devotional song that originated in India. Both bring you closer to something fundamental within you — a river of torrential emotion that ebbs and flows and will not be denied expression. The dichotomy of the two very different types of music eliciting a similar feeling was not lost on Alick Sethi, whose childhood soundtrack had heaps of both. In fact, somewhere along the way, while listening to qawwalis performed at his home in London as a child and devouring the 90s club scene in his teens and 20s, he trained his ear to match sound to emotion, to tell a story through a beat. The 51-year-old London-born British music supervisor exercised that same passion (and analytical genius) when he decided to work on Netflix documentary Y o Yo Honey Singh: Famous and gangster-drama Guns & Gulaabs. (Both series can be streamed on the platform.) 'When I was very young (three or four), I was at home in London, and every now and then, we had these musical evenings where people from the Indian community would come around with the harmonium and tabla, and they would start playing and singing qawwali music. I was fascinated by it. Of course, I was listening to music on the TV or the radio, whatever my parents had on, but this music hypnotised me because it was so long and kind of free form compared to what I heard on the radio, and everyone seemed to know what they were doing and singing, and when to sing and when not to sing and when to play and when not to play — I found it captivating. It's one of my early memories of music,' recalled Sethi. As he grew up, his tastes in music began to evolve; with exploration came the love for diverse genres, languages, and styles. 'I was looking for my identity, and I think I found it when I started going to university. I went to university in central London. I moved there, and I started to discover what came after the rave scene in the UK was this explosion of electronic music, and it seemed like new genres were springing up every year. It was a very amazing time because it was all new territory and uncharted,' he said. Living in London gave him an edge too, because as the UK's capital it drew talent like cheese draws mice. 'You could find the best DJs or the best electronic musicians playing in London every weekend or every week,' said Sethi. The experience would invariably be followed by a hunt for music on vinyl in little cellar record stores. But as a student, Sethi was constrained by budget (or rather, lack of). So he found a loophole; his university, Imperial College, had a radio station where he signed up and did a show, marking his beginning as a DJ that lasted till he was nearly 30. During the day, he would fiddle with test tubes and learn formulae, and in the evening, he would take to the decks; he still plays in clubs under the name Warped DJ. During his early DJing days, he found himself wondering about the music that was shown on TV. 'I realised one day that everything I saw on TV or in the movies had music. And I was wondering, how did that music get there, and who chose it, and how and why?' added Sethi. And the answer, he explained was Miami Vice. 'There was a legend that a TV executive was scribbling down ideas on a notepad, and he wrote MTV cops, and then left it at that, and wrote other ideas. And then someone saw that, and they developed this cop show where the cops that are undercover drive Ferraris because they have to pretend to be drug dealers and rich, and they have cool clothes, and it's all very styled, and then the music starts to play a part in that. Instead of just having chases and scenes with an orchestra or a composer making fast-paced music, they started to use songs from the era, songs that would become huge hits because of the show that we remember now. The songs made those scenes like mini pop videos — they became part of the story.' And so began his dance with the next phase of his life, one that would take him to places as far as Russia and India. Leap of fate Years later, he found his curiosity and subsequent learning paying off in the form of the Yo Yo Honey Singh project. He credits the director of the documentary, Mozez Singh, and the Academy Award-winning producer Guneet Monga with the creative vision behind the plan. Atypical to the Indian film industry, they took a leap of faith by hiring a music supervisor before even considering a composer. This gave Alick and Mozez the time and space to plan the musical universe for the story. 'Now I've worked on this Yo Yo Honey Singh documentary, and that was really interesting because it's unscripted, but it needed a music supervisor to license the songs and then also to help with the score, to put in ideas for the score, because we had a film director who was really collaborative and very sure of himself, secure in his vision in all aspects of production including music supervision. So, this was a real joy to work on.' In total, Sethi worked on negotiating and licensing 30 songs and 23 music videos, making it a gargantuan task in a country that he had not worked in too much and one that did not use music supervisors often. 'I worked for a long time in Russia,' he explained, 'And I think Russia grew into this whole licensing music and working with music supervisors thing more quickly. I think India has a very set way of working, and it's taking longer, but it's going in that direction, for sure,' mulled Sethi. In the Middle East, Sethi said, 'I know that all the big labels are opening offices in Dubai and Saudi ... and I think it's definitely needed. It's a hub, there's a lot of work, there's a lot of business, and there's a lot of communication that's needed. And of course, music is a very emotional way to communicate very quickly with people.' He explained that he's always on the lookout for places where he can engage with people. 'I think that's something that I feel is very prevalent in Dubai. That's something I would love to experience, coming from London and having had some of the happiest periods of my career in Moscow,' he said. For now though, he's just listening to music — the kind that plays on your mind long after you've seen the visuals on the screen. The kind that gets into your bones and causes your soles to itch to move to the beat. He is studying how to unlock the soundtrack of memories.
