Bade Miya Chote Miya, featuring Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff in the title roles, has opened to underwhelming reports. Director Ali Abbas Zafar, whose earlier credits include the two Salman Khan hits Tiger Zinda Hai and Sultan, insists shooting his latest film was the toughest.
"Bade Miyan Chote Miyan is the most challenging and difficult film of my career. The kind of vision the script demanded and the journey to practically achieve it was a struggle. Especially when you're attempting a genre such as action with two big action heroes, your film needs to look and feel a certain way, which is very difficult to achieve.
"The promise of Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, as the title suggests, is that it delivers a big screen visual entertainer. We're very happy as a team that we have created something that we believed in right from the time we wrote the script.
"I think it's a very visual film, it's a very entertaining film, it's very much today's film. And because it's designed for two action heroes, we've tried to push the bar in the genre of action in a very real way."
Ali thinks nationalism is a solid idea to hold on to.
"There is no emotion bigger than deshbhakti if you go right with it, but deshbhakti is not the only emotion within Bade Miyan Chote Miyan. There's a lot more happening.
This story is from the MAY 2024 edition of GLOBAL MOVIE MAGAZINE.
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