Gulzar Saab’s Unimaginable Response to Vicky Kaushal as Sam Manekshaw: Interview with Shrikant Desai |

An actor goes the additional mile to embody a personality, whether or not it includes hitting the fitness center, shedding weight, or gaining weight. But, the essential ingredient that brings a personality to life is the experience of a look designer and make-up artist.
ETimes had the privilege of chatting with Shrikant Desai, the artistic power behind the appears in movies equivalent to ‘Sam Bahadur,’ ‘Animal,’ ‘Jorum,’ and Laxman Utekar’s upcoming interval drama ‘Chhawa.’ Reflecting on his profession, Desai, impressed by a narrative about his favourite make-up designer in a movie journal, expressed contentment with selecting this career.He famous the constructive shift in notion through the years, with individuals now encouraging careers within the subject.
Describing his latest collaboration with Meghna Gulzar on ‘Sam Bahadur,’ Desai praised her as a superb director with a imaginative and prescient. Discussing the method of finalising Vicky Kaushal‘s look as Sam Manekshaw, Desai defined, “It was approach earlier than we truly began capturing for the movie. We had a glance take a look at with Vicky for the movie. Since Sam Manekshaw was a Parsi man, we needed to look into the main points accordingly. To make an individual look extra relatable, one has to bear in mind his eyes and ears. They’re an important options to make somebody look otherwise. So we labored on these features. After which come the gestures and different options.”

Recalling a pivotal second throughout the look take a look at, Desai talked about Gulzar Saab’s presence and the exceptional response to Vicky Kaushal as Sam Manekshaw. “I nonetheless bear in mind Gulzar Saab being current throughout our look take a look at, and as soon as I used to be performed with the look, Vicky was sitting in a make-up room in a sure approach. Gulzar ji and Meghna ji entered the room, and the twinkle in Gulzar ji’s eyes after seeing Vicky as Sam Manekshaw was admirable. It was giving me proof that I had performed a superb job. It was a pat on the shoulder for the work I did. Gulzar Saab’s response to seeing Vicky Kaushal as Sam Manekshaw was unimaginable,” Desai narrated.
Shrikant, who additionally crafted Ranbir Kapoor’s look in ‘Animal,’ expressed his aspirations to collaborate with Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan sooner or later, praising the consolation and rapport he shares with actors like Ranbir Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal, and Manoj Bajpayee. He concluded, “Ranbir Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal, and Manoj Bajpayee are very comfy to work with. We’ve a superb rapport proper now after engaged on a number of tasks. However I need to work with Shah Rukh and Salman.”