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Ace directors on working with top actors in commercials... and the possibility of doing movies with them

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Filmmakers are a busy lot. When they are not directing films, they get their creative juices flowing by directing commercials. In the past few years, there have been many filmmakers — some with an advertising background and some without — who have shot for commercials with actors. Aanand L Rai shot for a commercial with the Heropanti stars, Tiger Shroff and Kriti Sanon in Benaras, while Pradeep Sarkar worked with none other than Amitabh Bachchan for the Swachh Bharat campaign. But while Pradeep is working with Big B in the movie he is directing. Rai is yet to work with the young stars in a film. We asked some filmmakers who have directed actors in commercials about their experience and if they would like to work with them in a movie:

Farah Khan
Worked with Ranveer Singh on a Head & Shoulders commercial

Ranveer was great fun to shoot with. He’s very professional and came bang on time. Of course, he would insist that I get home-cooked food so I had to get aloo ghost, yakhni pulao and other foods every day which wasn’t a problem as we did the shoot at YRF and my home is close by. As it was digitally shot, we completed the shoot in three days. It was a fun shoot without any stress. Ranveer would not go to his makeup van to change but change on the sets to save time and all the agency girls would start giggling and laughing!

Punit Malhotra
Shot a commercial with Shah Rukh Khan for Reliance Jio

The Shah Rukh Khan commercial was a 30-second one-shot ad. So we had to rehearse it a day before. I too rehearsed for it but then SRK shot for it the next day and just took it to another level because him being him, he made everything so cool. There was a slight mishap with a cable, but he took it in his stride and shot despite it. Someone like me, who’s already a fan, became a bigger fan after this. He was a real dream to work with. And it’s true what they say about his energy levels — he brought life to the film. He was shooting till midnight and beyond and was as energetic as possible. I would love him to play any role in my movie.

Tarun Mansukhani
Shot with Kareena Kapoor and Karan Johar for a paint commercial

Working with Kareena is amazing because she does exactly what you ask her to do. She doesn’t complain about costumes or the long hours. It was my first commercial and I had this big star to work with as well as Karan Johar, who is my icon. So the pressure was on but they made it so much fun. She is a fabulous actor and I would love to direct Kareena in a film. I hope writers are able to do justice to her talent. I can imagine her doing the role of a serial killer — the audience would never imagine that such a beautiful woman could also be so evil! That would be fun!

Rohit Shetty
Shot the Ching’s Secret ad with 
Ranveer Singh

We shot the ad in just three days, in which one day we shot round the clock. We did the action in the morning and shot the song from evening to morning and then after two hours we again started working. And let me tell you, at no point was Ranveer’s energy levels going down. On the contrary, it was increasing (laughs) especially at night. There was one shot where he plays the mother, but he came on the set as the mother. We were laughing as he was in his character. He was roaming around, getting ready and talking to me and everyone else like a mother, in that character. I would love do an out-an-out action film with Ranveer because I think, out of the younger lot, he’s one actor who can play a cop or an underworld guy or in Bajirao, the father of an eight-year-old son. Out of the whole young lot, he’s the only guy who can pull off all these characters which few people can understand. We are working on a few things but haven’t finalised anything as yet.

Onir
Worked with Kareena Kapoor Khan for t AND campaign

I have known Kareena from before, but have never worked with her in a movie. Working on a commercial with her was delightful. We had to finish a lot of shots in eight hours and we finished right on time, mostly because she was so super co-operative. The change of costumes were fast and she was very quick to understand what the director wants. All through the shoot, the atmosphere was really nice, because she was warm and there was no tension because she had to shoot so much. I would love to work with her in a movie and give her a role which challenges her as an artiste.

Aanand L Rai
Shot a commercial with Tiger Shroff

It was fantastic working with Tiger. He is the youngest actor I have worked with. This is the most honest generation of actors. They are very clear about what they want from themselves and where they have to reach. I  would love to work with Tiger on a movie. It would be great to see him play a rustic character from the heartland of India. 

(With inputs by Upala KBR)

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