When Abhishek Bachchan got ’emotional’ thinking about daughter Aaradhya during I Want to Talk shoot, Shoojit Sircar recalls

Abhishek Bachchan has been a hands-on father to his daughter Aaradhya Bachchan and often shares his admiration for her in his interviews. Recently, filmmaker Shoojit Sircar shared an interesting anecdote from when he worked on his latest release, I Want to Talk and mentioned that Abhishek Bachchan got ’emotional’ thinking about his daughter Aaradhya Bachchan while shooting for his film. ‘ Used to be.

In a new interview with Siddharth Kannan for his YouTube channel, Shoojit Sircar recalls his experiences shooting for his film I Want to Talk. He revealed that during the shooting of his emotional film centered on a father-daughter relationship, Abhishek’s personal experience as a father influenced him and added more authenticity to his performance.

He explained that since the actor is the father of his 13-year-old daughter Aaradhya Bachchan, he naturally added his emotions and perspective to his role on screen as a father suffering from a life-threatening illness. He said, “There are many scenes where he gets emotional because I also have daughters, he also has a daughter. Somehow that will reflect in his work.” (I have daughters and so do they. Somewhere, this naturally reflects in their work.)

October The filmmaker shared that when the actor shot emotional scenes with his on-screen daughter, he would have thought about his daughter and related to it as a father. Apart from this, being the father of two daughters, he himself became emotional on many occasions.

The Sardar Udham filmmaker also revealed that he could understand the Housefull 3 actor’s emotional connection with Arjun Sen’s role and the story of the film. “I know sometimes he won’t tell me, but I know he was affected by it,” Sarkar said. He said that the story of the film is based on a real life story and it was someone’s reality, which impressed the actor more.

I Want to Talk was released on November 22, 2024 and stars Abhishek Bachchan, Ahilya Bamru, Johnny Lever and Pearl Dey in pivotal roles. According to Pinkvilla’s box office report, the film performed poorly and collected Rs 1.20 crore in five days of its release.