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Sam Bahadur, which reunited director Meghna Gulzar and actor Vicky Kaushal after Raazi, opened to strong word of mouth as it released on December 1..
The biopic on India's first Field Marshal, Sam Manekshaw, covering four decades of his fascinating story, was not an easy task to envisage on screen..
In this exclusive interview with Hindustan Times, director Meghna Gulzar went into detail about researching Sam Manekshaw's life, making sure all the details felt authentic in the narrative, and why it's the story that matters the most to her as a filmmaker..
(smiles) It almost looked like, 'Abhi tak ke jitne filmein hein (all the films that I have done), as many as I have made, I have kind of redeemed the not having action bit all-in-one!.
Huge kudos to him, because he is also someone who is doing the mainstream action films today, and for him to understand what was happening here- where they would be fighting with wooden rifles, so the way they are going to run, the way they fire, and to do hand-to-hand combat is going to be different To be able to design it in a way that it is still aesthetic and still exciting with the period details was not an easy thing to do..
