Sanjay Dutt is Aditi Rao‘s ‘BFG’

Aditi Rao Hydari has just been a part of the most emotional experience of her career. She played daughter to Sanjay Dutt in Omung Kumar’s Bhoomi. She says, It was so fulfilling. By the end of it I really felt like we had developed a father-daughter relationship.

Aditi now has a special name for Dutt. “I call him BFG… have you read Roald Dahl’s book and seen Steven Spielberg’s film? Mr Dutt is like the big friendly giant in that film. He was so protective and affectionate throughout the shoot. And what I really liked about Mr Dutt was that like me, he doesn’t like to rehearse. I get nervous working with actors who rehearse. I like to go on camera and then get into my character. He likes to do the same. That made our on-screen chemistry really interesting. Each time he would do a take differently. If in one take he would pull my ear, in the next one he would tap my head affectionately. So, there was always that sense of the unknown when facing the camera with him.”

Incidentally, both Dutt and Aditi dug into their lives to add a certain weight to their father-daughter bonding in Bhoomi. Dutt has a real-life daughter just about Aditi’s age.

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