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Sharad Malhotra opens up on preparation for his role in ‘Vidrohi, reveals ‘Losing Weight’

Sharad Malhotra was last seen in Naagin and is now all set for an upcoming show Vidrohi’. Where the actor will be essaying the role of freedom fighter ‘Buxi Jagabandhu’. The promo of the show was recently released and it looks surreal. 

Sharad Malhotra in an interview with IANS talked about how did he prepare himself for the role, “I have had to do a lot for the show. There was an acting workshop that was conducted as well where we were taught some local martial arts of Odisha. We were also taught sword fighting but I have been taking up some training in it for quite some time now so that helped. We were also trained in horseback riding. My personal preparation would include conducting some thorough research about the revolt, reading books from the said time, and watching some relevant material on TV. I am always making my own notes to better the character. I had to put in a lot to achieve just the right kind of body language to play ‘Jagabandhu” he said.

The ‘Banoo Main Teri Dulhan’ actor also revealed that he had to work on losing weight and practice a lot for voice modulation, “I had to lose weight and gain muscle weight to get the right look. The kind of shows that I have previously worked on are quite different from what ‘Jagabandhu’s character is so I quite obviously had to work a lot on my voice modulation, the dialect, and of course, the body language. We needed an Oriya touch to it all so the dialect was worked on by keeping that in mind. We wanted everything to be very authentic and hence had to learn quite a lot about the state of Odisha”, he added.

He further concluded, “It is an untold story of our rich history so we wanted to say it right. As I belong to Kolkata, I can vouch for the similarities between the two states, Odisha and West Bengal which helped and the episodes have come out to be fantastic is what I’ve heard. We’ve even shot in the rain for that matter! I remember driving from Mumbai to Karjat where the shoot was scheduled during the monsoons while it was raining heavily. The promo has got some crazy responses as expected, ”.

Disha Yadav

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She is an aspiring writer and has been into our the domain of content writing since a year. She joined CT as an intern and soon took over full-fledged writing for Bollywood. She contributes news articles for CT and intends to write on diverse issues on Bollywood.
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