Hera Feri is a prestigious Bollywood film, and so Baburao is from Ganpato Apte. After portraying Paresh Rawal’s character, people started looking at him through the same lens. Soon, the actors started getting stuck and wanted freedom from the image. Therefore, that filmmaker R. Balki went to help and asked for help as he felt that he was suffocated. read on!
Paresh Rawal played the role of Babu Bhaiya in a successful Hera Furry franchise. While he enjoys the love that comes in his way even after years of portraying that character, there was a time when he got stuck and suffocated. During an interview with The Lalantop, the senior star admitted, “Woh Gayle’s Fanda Han (this is like a nose.)”
Rawal shared back in 2007, he went to filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj, after the sequel, then Hera Feri, was released in 2006. The actor told the director that he had a film in his mind, and he wanted him to direct it to free Babura Ganpatra’s image. He would like to play a different character with a single getup, and only Vishal could do it.
When the Omkara director asked him why he wanted to do this, Rawal said that whoever comes to him, he has a refrain in his mind. “The lead actor is Hu Yaar, Muje Fasna Nahi He is a Dalla Main. (I am an actor and I don’t want to get caught in that image).” But since Bhardwaj could not help him, he was another Ace filmmaker R in 2022. Went to Balki.
Recalling his conversation with Pad Man Helmer, the OMG actor shared that he asked Balki to give him a different part in the same getup. The actor-consentor told the filmmaker, “Muje dum ghuta hain (I think I feel suffocated).” Saying that, the welcome actor admitted that he feels happy that people praise his character, but he wants to be free from it.
Meanwhile, Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, and Sunil Shetty have joined hands again to resume their roles in the upcoming entertainer, Hera Pheri 3. As Pinkvilla had previously reported, the film 2026 directed by Priyadarshan is scheduled for release.
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