Ferrari Ki Sawaari : Filled with freshness

With just one day to its release the movie 'Ferrari Ki Sawaari' adds a fresh feel as the overall roles played by the actors and the director are the main factors to this. The director Rajesh Mapuskar, who had successfully ran campaigns of advertisements had decided to quit the ad industry and try his luck with movies. Together with Vidhu Vinod Chopra productions, he is now able to have a strong platform to launch his story. Mapuskar feels that it is the confidence that the producers puts on him that drives his confidence in taking the movie to the next level.

To add to the factor, Sharman Joshi takes up the lead role and this time he would be playing the role of a father who works keenly on fulfilling his son's dream. Which is again a new territory for Sharman Joshi as he has never done anything similar and as he says he never has the looks of a father! "I went through all the emotions. It was frustrating, tiring, exhausting. Factors of fear came in. It had been about two-and-half years," the 33-year-old told. Continuing about his effort for the movie and fulfilling the character he adds "But you have to deal with them if you are committed to something. It requires patience. I was not willing to short sell myself. I was looking for the right kind of work that would excite me. Quality work takes time. I am not here to put out a barrage of movies,"

“I had to convince the director that I can pull of the role (of a single parent), as I don't look like a father at all. It was very challenging for me as an actor” says the actor. 

The missing romantic side

The movie attempts to change the way story is narrated as it has mainly three characters that drive the story, that of Sharman Joshi, his son and Sharman's father, played by Boman Irani. Boman Irani's role is already much appreciated on the promo's, he plays a cranky old father. Mapuskar feels that he is glad that he has the great crew to back his story and is always obliged to Boman Irani for committing for the debut movie.

The film takes a lot of risks — it is actor Sharman Joshi’s first film as a solo protagonist, it has no romantic angle but is about a father’s quest to fulfil his young son’s dreams and it has a first-timer like Mapuskar at the helm. And in Chopra’s own words, it was considered by many as “financial suicide’’. The production house, however, went ahead to give a chance to a budding director “who had not filmed anything before” but had worked as an assistant director in the Munnabhai series and 3 Idiots.

“In Ferrari Ki Sawari, Sharman’s character does all the things a mother does for a child in a traditional Hindi film,” Irani said. Asked if the production house was relying too much on its home-grown formula that combines a humourous look at human failings and the feel-good factor, Irani said they were not “changing anything just for the heck of changing”.

“The filmmaking process is complex in which an actor is translating the director’s vision on screen,” said Irani, adding that he can get into the skin of the character he is essaying through keen observation and exploring the theme in depth.

Ask Sharman if he hates doing the usual romantic hero role in the Hindi movies, he says he isn't interested yet in those but he did not failed say “But I still have a lot of years ahead of me and I may end up surprising audiences by running around trees and doing all the things that Hindi film heroes do on screen,” he added. 

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- Unknown Updated at: Thursday, June 14, 2012