Summary Dibakar Banerjee wants to cast Nawazuddin in 'Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye' but couldn't locate the actor.
MUMBAI (Web Desk) - The 39-year-old actor entered Bollywood in 1999 with a blink and miss role in Aamir Khan starrer Sarfarosh . However, his first breakthrough role came in 2004 with Anurag Kashyap s Black Friday , the film on Mumbai s 1993 bombings, where he played a terrorist.
After 14 years of struggle, his role as the hot-headed Intelligence Bureau officer Khan in Kahaani and drug-addled Faizal Khan in Kashyap s two part revenge drama Gangs of Wasseypur , finally changed things for him.
"It is not that after Gangs of Wasseypur I thought of working with Nawaz. I wanted to work with him since Black Friday , because I have been seeing him in small and bits parts in lots of films and he has impressed me," Dibakar told .
The director loved his performance in films like Patang , Peepli Live and many others where he has left a mark.
"I wanted to work with him in Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye . I just couldn t find him. I wanted Nawaz to act as Abhay s sidekick in the film, but that was ultimately played by Manu Rishi. He made it as his role and did a good job," he said.
But now Dibakar is working with Nawazuddin for his upcoming film Bombay Talkies , which celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema.
It is for the first time that four top directors from Bollywood Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap ? have come together for a venture comprising four short films.
Dibakar s short film is based on Satyajit Ray s short story, which is an emotional tale of a father-son relationship.
