- By Tapapriya Dutta
- Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:20 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Vedang Raina, who will be soon sharing screen space with Alia Bhatt for his upcoming movie Jigra, shared that during the shoot his mental health was affected. He will be playing the younger brother of Alia’s character in the movie who has been imprisoned. Raina shared that while shooting an intense scene in the movie, he shut himself in his vanity van and switched off the light and phone to process the emotions needed for his shot. However, as the shoot got delayed he was in self-imposed solitary confinement for a longer period of time which later impacted his mental health.
In an interview with Mansworld India, Vedang said “Alia (Bhatt) would be in the scene, hit all the right notes with precision and get out of the character as soon as she hears ‘cut’. But I couldn’t, it is not easy for me to come in and out of character. It did impact my mental health a bit. On the very first day, I was to shoot a rather emotionally intense scene, and I shut myself in my vanity, put the lights off, switched off my phone, and told people to just leave me alone—I sat there listening to my music. Now, as luck would have it, the shot was supposed to happen at 3pm but got delayed and we started rolling around 8 pm. So, I was in that self-imposed solitary confinement for about 8 long hours, and it really started impacting me.”
“Even when the scenes were done, I couldn’t get out of that zone for 2/3 hours. I realised that it is not going to work like this, and after that I have decided not to put myself through such a thing… it is not worth it and I believe there are other ways to access that emotion, I just need to find which one works for me the best,” the actor added.
Jigra also features Aditya Nanda, Manoj Pahwa, Yuvraj Vijan and Harssh Singh in supporting roles. Directed by Vasan Bala, the movie will be released in theatres on October 11.