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Siddharth malhotra

Sidharth Malhotra is a busy man to catch. The actor, on the eve of the release of his second movie, Hasee Toh Phasee, is doing promotional tours around the country. But it is difficult to tell from his excited and eager appearance that he has been doing back-to-back interviews all day. There is a lot to talk about as well — from his modelling years to being an assistant director on My Name is Khan, his big launch in Bollywood and being nervous about his new movie, which sees him in the solo lead.

That Sidharth Malhotra does not come from a background in cinema, with a famous name attached is the first question he’s often asked. But the 29-year-old actor is not much concerned about that. “There are many new producers and directors today who want to make

good and different kinds of films. It doesn’t matter if you have a relative in the industry or not,” he adds. What matters, he says, are the choices you make. “For me, the most difficult move was when I chose to quit modelling, and applied for a position of an assistant director,” he says.

Brothers is an official remake of Warrior. Why do you think this movie works in a Bollywood setting?

"Well it has so much for a Bollywood audience. It is a great emotional story of how this family breaks apart and what impact and repercussions that has on the children. And when they grow up how they resolve it. The two brothers are extremely traumatised due to the path that they had and

they take up a profession as Mixed Martial Arts Fighters and it's about how they eventually resolve that. It has the Hindi film emotion in it, but the packaging is very Western, so it works for both audiences."

Did you watch the original film and how did you go about ensuring the portrayal of your character was not influenced by the original film?

"Well I have definitely seen the original before the film happened and before it came to me. Once I heard the script my character was totally different from Tom Hardy's character. My character is the only one that's not similar to the original, so there was no point referring to the original. I just went by my director Karan Malhotra's convictions

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