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- By Tapapriya Dutta
- Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:38 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Sarfira director Sudha Kongara Prasad shared that Akshay Kumar broke the 8-hour policy of shooting for the climax scene. The filmmaker stated that the superstar initially informed the team that he does not work after 8 hours. Most of the movie was completed as per his schedule except the climax part. During that time the team members urged Akshay to stay longer to complete the shoot. He very sweetly accepted it and gave the time to finish the shooting.
In an interview with News18, Sudha said “Akshay sir has this policy, he’s told me from Day Zero that he will work 8 hours and in those 8 hours, he says, he is like an assistant director. He doesn’t move out of the sets. But after 8 hours, you just look around and he might not be there. This is what I was told and warned. However, this didn’t happen with us. We always worked with the said condition in front of us. But that particular day, it was going beyond 8 hours and we had the finish the scene because we were finishing the film.”
“My first AD went and requested him. He told Akshay, ‘Sir, another 10 minutes sir, another half hour sir, we know it is beyond 8 hours. (He was bargaining) Sir, so many days I have let you go in 5 hours and 6 hours.’ Akshay sir replied, ‘Yeah, that’s because I finished my work early, because I was fast.’ The AD continued to plead him, ‘Please give us half hour.’ Very sweetly, Akshay gave us the half hour,” she added.
“He generally asks for 12 hour turn around but the thing was, the next day, we had a lot of work and we wanted him to finish one particular scene. Since he was living in Panchgani, he had to come down to the plains and shoot. So we are talking about the travel time and prep time. I wanted to shoot the scene on the following day at 6:30-7 am. That meant he had to start from Panchgani at 3-3:30 am, without the 12-hour turnaround. There were hardly 6 hours between the two shifts. My AD and I thought he was going to kill us and we wondered how do we ask him. We eventually went and requested him,” the filmmaker said.
Sudha recalled, “He was acting stern but knowing his sense of humour, (I knew he was joking). He said, ‘Okay, I will think about it, I’ll see. You are violating my rules.’ But the next day, we all turned up on sets and all we wanted to know was has Akshay sir left Panchgani. He left on the dot, he arrived on sets on the dot and he made this exception without a fuss. He shot the toughest scene of the film on that day and it was beautiful. That’s my fondest memory of him.”
Sarfira is all set to release in theatres on 12th July. The movie also starred Radhika Madan, Paresh Rawal and Seema Biswas in significant roles. It is a Hindi remake of the Tamil movie Soorarai Pottru starring Suriya Sivakumar.