Bring on the Madness

Relatively new to the industry,the actors were excited about the project from the beginning. Manjot says the title of the movie did it for him. “I’m from Delhi,and I knew what fukrey means — a slang for someone who is jobless or directionless. I knew it would be a fun film,” he says. In the film,Hunny (Samrat) and Choocha (Sharma),who are both jobless,discover that the latter has a gift that can help them win the lottery every time they attempt. Using this to make it big,they rope in Lali (Manjot) and Zafar (Fazal). The four get into a lot of trouble and are bullied around by the woman gangster Bholi Punjaban played by Richa Chadda.

According to Fazal,the four characters are everyday people one meets in a college or school. Sharma says,“I’m sure the audience will look at these characters and their ‘fukreypanthi’ and say,‘Arre,yeh toh maine bhi kiya hain’. Most of the crazy things that these characters do,I have done in life too.” Fazal instantly quips,“Yeah,I suppose he likes dressing like a peacock and have dogs chase him around.” This makes the cast burst into laughter. Sharma obliges by narrating a scene where he was in a peacock costume and chased by eight dogs. The actors seem to have stuck to the general mood of the movie and have their share of fun on the sets. “We had dogs,horses,leopards and peacocks — the whole package. Once Varun fell sick and kept us up all night. Actually,he was sick for half an hour but wouldn’t let us sleep. The next day,we had a scene where the both of us were supposed to ride horses. His horse refused to budge. I was exhausted from the previous night and dozed off. I remember waking up startled,when someone yelled ‘Cut!’. That’s the final scene in the movie,” says Sharma.

Such fun moments on the sets have been captured in five ‘behind the scene’ movies,complete with scripts. They unanimously agree that having done it all in the movie — from being chased by dogs,to running amok on the streets of Delhi,where the movie is based — they will never be embarrassed by anything stupid they do in life.

Fazal says,“Everyone has a little craziness in them,some more than others. You just need to bring it out in them.”