‘I was terrified’: Meezaan Jaffery opens up on playing Ranveer Singh's body double in ‘Padmaavat’

Meezaan Jaffery, who recently appeared in ‘Hungama 2’, made his silver screen debut in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's ‘Padmaavat’ as a body double for Ranveer Singh.

In a new interview with RJ Siddharth Kannan, he recalled the experience of playing Ranveer Singh's body double.

He told him that assisting Bhansali on 'Padmaavat' and witnessing Ranveer, Deepika Padukone, and Shahid Kapoor on set taught him a lot. "Bhansali sir trusted me, and he would rehearse scenes with me. He would record the rehearsals and the blockings, and he'd give me feedback on my performance."

When he was called in to step in for an unavailable Ranveer, he recalls a tense situation.

He said,"I was there on set, in costume and makeup. I hadn't eaten anything, so I was really stressed. I was a little late, and it took an hour for the prosthetics and for me to get into the look. I learned the script in that one hour. The moment I came out, I was already nervous about doing proper acting in front of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, it was technically my 'silver screen debut', and there were 500 junior artistes around me, and I had to deliver a whole speech. Then an assistant director comes to me and shows me Ranveer's version of the shot, and asks me to replicate his mannerisms. I was like, 'why couldn't you have told me before! I was already so tense'. But regardless, I went ahead, I was terrified, I was in bad shape."

For the unversed, Before being cast in Bhansali's film 'Malaal', Meezaan, the son of actor Jaaved Jafferi, had already assisted him.