“Action is easy, it is rather easy. Comedy is difficult,” Akshay told IANS in a talk at the sets of Neeraj Pandey’s “Special Chabbis”. After a shot, the 44-year-old relaxed within the balcony of an old-structured house in Connaught Place here.
“You know…you can kick your legs, punch someone conveniently and do action. In fact, action will also look great through camerawork. Also, for an emotional scene, you'll be able to put glycerine within the eyes and make any artist cry, and the viewers think he's crying, so people also start crying,” said the actor, looking fit and smart in trousers, a shirt and sleeveless sweater.
“But to make someone laugh, it's important to work very hard. It’s very difficult to make people laugh. So comedy is tough…the toughest,” he added.
Akshay became the undisputed action star of Hindi films with projects like “Khiladi”, “Sabse Bada Khiladi”, “Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi”, “International Khiladi”, “Waqt Hamara Hai” and “Mohra”.
In 2000, he tried his comic timing within the hit movie “Hera Pheri”. It was followed by others like “Garam Masala”, “Phir Hera Pheri”, “Bhagam Bhaag”, “Welcome”, “Singh Is Kinng”, “Housefull” and “Tees Maar Khan”.
“Nothing has changed about comedy. People enjoy what you give from the center. Don’t attempt to go by the rage. Go along with your heart and mind…if you do your work with sincerity, it'll always work,” said the actor who has done about 100 films in his 25-year-old career.
“The audience only enjoys an entertaining film. See, the black and white film ‘The Artist’ is the controversy of the city. Who knew that a black and white silent film would are available in 2012 and achieve this well and remove the Oscar?
“So when you make a movie together with your head and heart, it'll always have a hook up with the audience,” said Akshay, who's now awaiting for the sequel of Sajid Khan’s 2010 comic film “Housefull” to hit the theatres April 5.
“Housefull 2″ have been subtitled “The Dirty Dozen”, way to the selection of artists in it.
Apart from Akshay, it has Riteish Deshmukh, Shreyas Talpade and John Abraham, with Jacqueline Fernandez, Asin Thottumkal, Shazahn Padamsee and Zarine Khan within the cast. They're joined by senior actors like Mithun Chakraborty, Rishi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor and Boman Irani to finish the dirty dozen.
Unlike most stars who find it cumbersome to work with such a lot of actors, Akshay says the experience was unmatched.
“Multi-starrers are fun to work on. There are such a lot of actors, such a lot of people who you find yourself laughing and giggling with even throughout the take. The director gets bored to death and says cut, but somebody or the opposite keeps goofing up or saying something wrong,” he said.
“A director must have patience enough to position up with all of this. It’s an overly difficult job to do. But Sajid does it well. Sajid is a mad man, and only he can handle this,” he added. – IANS
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