Mumbai: Actor Vicky Kaushal who has won the ‘National Film Award for Best Actor’ for the film Uri: The Surgical Strike was initially not keen to do the film. The actor himself has disclosed this during a recent interview to a film website.
During the course of discussion, Vicky Kaushal has disclosed that he was shooting for the flick Raazi where he dons the role of a Pakistani army major when he got the script for Uri: The Surgical Strike. The actor has said that director Aditya Dhar, who also made his directorial debut with the film had said that he was considering Vicky only for the lead role.
“I brought the script home and was going through it,” Vicky has been quoted as saying. “However, I was not being able to identify myself with the role. So halfway through the script, I stopped reading it and next day went for the shooting of Raazi,” the actor has added.
The actor then discloses that it was his father Shyam Kaushal who prompted him to do Uri: The Surgical Strike. “My father went through the script and when I told him I was not too keen to do the film, he told me ‘not doing the film would be one of the biggest mistakes of your life’. It was after his comment that I decided to do Uri: The Surgical Strike.
The rest as they say is history. Not only did the film give Vicky Kaushal national recognition, it also became one of the highest grosser of the year.
PNN & Agencies
