By HT
Prachi Desai, who was last seen romancing Abhishek Bachchan within the hit film, Bol Bachchan (2012), has now been paired with 53-year-old Sanjay Dutt within the upcoming movie, Samy. However the 25 year-old is unperturbed concerning the age difference.“I was 17 once I made my TV debut as Bani within the TV show
Kasamh Se. Bani is married to the much-older Jai, played by Ram Kapoor. I wasn’t sure if I MAY pull off that role as I USED TO BE new to acting. Now, I’m more confident,” says Prachi.
The actor recalls having grown up watching Sanjay’s films. “He was always this large Bollywood superstar I idolised — all muscles at the outside, soft at the inside. I’ve always desired to be paired with an older actor, be it Sanjay or Ajay (Devgn), because I BELIEVE the older man-younger woman angles make for interesting plots,” says Prachi.
Samy is the Hindi remake of a 2003 Tamil blockbuster, Saamy, starring Vikram and Trisha Krishnan. It was dubbed in Telugu as Saamy IPS, after which even remade in Telugu as Lakshmi Narasimha (2004). It flagged off a spate of police-thief films in Tamil cinema.
“I just like the original. It’s amazing how Vikram can change his look and function so drastically, from Saamy to Raavan (Mani Ratnam’s 2010 film). Cop films from the south are very entertaining,” she asserts.She is equally impressed with Trisha, whose role she is reprising. But when director KS Ravikumar is to be believed, with Prachi on board, the nature of the varsity girl, Bhuvana, will undergo many changes.
