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Cook on the run!
RANA SIDDIQUI
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The ‘Iqbal’ team of Nagesh Kukunoor and Shreyas Talpade is back. This time for ‘Bombay to Bangkok.’
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Photo: ANU PUSHKARNA
AFFABLE ALWAYS: Shreyas Talpade.
He has a perennial smile on his face to go with his euphonic voice. Add to it his natural acting talent. Young Shreyas Talpade seems to have all the ingredients needed to climb the ladder of success in filmdom.
Perhaps, these are the qualities that endeared him to the likes of Nagesh Kukunoor (‘Iqbal’), followed by Prakash Jha (‘Dil Dosti etc…’ ) and Farah Khan (‘Om Shanti Om’). And now even Shyam Benegal has zeroed in on him for his forthcoming film ‘Mahadev.’ And, once again, his old friend Nagesh has collected the old ‘Iqbal’ team. Result? ‘Bombay to Bangkok,’ releasing this January. Shreyas Talpade plays the lead.
The film, he says, is important to him for three reasons; one, Nagesh, two, he gets to do comedy for the first time, and three, it has helped him “get over” the initial hitch in enacting intense romantic scenes and take them professionally.
Romantic comedy
Says Shreyas: “It is actually a fun-filled, light-hearted romantic comedy that has a little share of thrill and action too. I play a cook who steals money from the restaurant he works in, only to realise later that the money belonged to the mafia. The mafia starts chasing the cook. While on the run he bumps into a team of doctors heading for Bangkok. He masquerades as one, joins them and flees to Bangkok.
“It is not a rib-tickling comedy. It is like Hrishikesh Mukerjee’s films that never made you burst into laughter but kept you in good humour throughout,” he says.
His forthcoming films include ‘Click’ with Sandeep Sivan in which he plays a fashion photographer, and ‘Golmaal Returns.’
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