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Jaane-E-Mann appears like one crazy ride
 Jaane-E-Mann
is all about a triangle love story between a dude and
a nerd. Salman is the dude. I play the nerd. Priety
Zinta is the girl we both fall in love with. The movie
starts from 1970s and goes ahead another 15 years in
the film. I have three kinds of looks in the film.
This nerd who was in college eventually becomes an
astronaut in NASA. How his love story takes shape
forms the crux of Jaan-e-mann.
How would you define your character in the film?
Definition I have already given. Like I said earlier,
I play a nerd. It was quite difficult to do that. It
was not an easy job to be playing a person rejected by
every woman, who does not have a date with him.
Something like this never happened to me, so it was
quite a difficult job to play a character like this. I
managed it, thanks to my director who had confidence
in me and also to the producer who believed I could
perform this very heavy duty and difficult role.
It is your second film with both Salman and Preity.
How has the experience been so far?
Priety, yes this is my second film. I started with
Sangharsh. It was the film where I started taking
acting seriously. It was a film where I took acting as
a real profession. Earlier I used to act to earn
money. But with Sangharsh things changed. Me and
Preity have both evolved and turned out in different
ways. She has gone ahead and has become a very great
actor. She got all the support from Karan Johar,
Aditya Chopra. She belongs from that school and I am
still waiting to get admission in that school. I
fondly call her Basanti because she keeps on talking
all the time. She has a lot of things to talk about.
Any topic you give her, she has a lot of things to
say. I really enjoy working with her.
Salman is a great co-actor. We enjoy working with each
other and I feel we share a great chemistry together
on screen. People liked us in our first movie and will
like us again here.
Anupam Kher has a complete make over. He plays a
dwarf. What do you have to say about that?
Yes he is playing a dwarf. It was a very hard role for
him. Not only to enact but it was physically very hard
to play a dwarf as all throughout he had to walk on
his knees wearing green colored socks so that they
could graphically remove the leg. It was quite a
difficult task to walk on the knees and even dance and
say your lines and even remember your lines. Hats off
to Anupam Kher, he has done it brilliantly. I was
amazed as to how he could do it and how he could
perform it.
Tell us about Shirish Kunder
Very rarely you come across with a new director who is
a genius. Shirish is a genius. The way he has
conceived the film is extra ordinary. I would proudly
say that this man with this film is going to change
the level of Indian cinema. He is going to bring it to
the next level. So I am very proud of being a part of
Jaan-E-Mann.
Did you help him editing the film?
No he himself is a very good editor. He did not
require my help. I don't think so he needed my
assistance.
You now seem to be Sajid Nadiadwala's new lucky
mascot. Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, now Jaan-E-Mann and you
are also doing Hey Baby for him. What do you feel?
Me and Sajid are basically school friends. We go back
a long way. He was my senior in Don Bosco. From there
I never thought I would one day come in this line and
one day meet Sajid Nadiadwala and he would make a film
with me called Waqt Hamara Hai. Then we had a little
break, we did not work with each other for at least
about 9 years. After that we started Mujhse Shaadi
Karogi. It was great and I am glad that we started
working again.
Tell us about the music of Jaan-E-Mann.
Music is doing very well. It has some different kind
of music. It has got Ajnabee which is a different song
from the routine Hindi songs. It has been done in a
very different way. The orchestra is different. The
song has been recorded in Chennai with some different
technicians coming and recording with the help of Anu
Malik who is the music director of the film. There was
a lot of input from Shirish while recording the songs.
So Ajnabee is your favorite track?
Yes Ajnabee is my favorite track.
What would be the USP of Jaan-E-Mann?
In Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, Salman and I made people
laugh. This time we will make people cry. The USP
would be me and Salman coming together again. The USP
also is the characters we both play in the film. It is
from two different aspects of life. One is a rock star
and one is a nerd. Both coming together, having a love
story in between for the beautiful girl Preity. This
complete package is the USP of the film.
You started of as an action hero, and now you are
considered one of the finest actors for romantic leads
and comic leads. A conscious decision or just
happened?
Well I was actually bored being labeled as just an
action hero. So I decided that I need a change. I
desperately need it. It was a risky job to switch over
because if one actor is labeled in one particular
genre then it becomes really difficult to switch over.
But I succeeded. A lot of people told me not to try it
since everything was going well for me but I was very
fortunate to come out of it and get into something
different from my image.
Will we see you soon in an action movie?
Yes, definitely yes. I will be doing an action movie
very soon. I do want to make a very hi-fi action movie
and dedicate that film to my son.
Don is releasing with Jaan-E-Mann. Any sense of
competition?
Well Don is a different kind of film. Jaan-E-Mann is
different. Don is already a hit concept. It has a lot
of action and is different genre from Jaan-E-Mann. So
there is no competition from each other. Both the
films are releasing during the festive season. So I
don't see any point having competition.
What is your expectation from Jaan-E-Mann?
I am expecting quite a lot from Jaan-E-Mann for a
simple reason. I earlier told you about the USP of the
film, the look of the film, that producer Sajid has
left no stones unturned to make the movie look
beautiful. We have a good product and I am very
confident of this film.
One of the publications said something about you
and Nana Patekar. An alleged fight was mentioned.
Could you clarify?
There is nothing to clarify because there is nothing
that happened there.
Your future projects
Bhagam Bhaag, Namaste London are the two movies which
will be my next releases.
You did an album sometime back. Will you take
singing as a profession?
No. I did that for a good cause. I am not a good
singer at all. I just did it because the song was in
my mind and I wanted to bring it ahead and put it in
front of the world what is there in my mind. It is not
an album but just one song that I sang. The whole
album belongs to Sukhbir. He has done the music and
his father has sung it.
Will Akshay Kumar produce or direct a film?
No. I just want to be happy.
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