Saif Ali Khan and Jaideep Ahlawat’s Jewel Thief- The Heist Begins released on Netflix recently. The action heist thriller, produced by Siddharth Anand, is based on a battle surrounding a diamond heist. In a recent interview with IMDb, Saif, Jaideep, and Siddharth sharing their experience of filming the movie. During the conversation, the Agent Vinod actor revealed that he ‘hated himself’ on the first day of shoot.
Talking about the first day of shooting, Saif mentioned that he felt ‘nervous’ and ‘lost’. “I remember my first day, it was very late at night. We started at 1AM. I would finish at about 5AM as the light came up. It was the first time I met Jaideep. As usual, I hated myself because it was the first day. Sometimes to be honest, I don’t know what I’m doing. It takes a while to get used to it, I was a little nervous. A little tired. A little lost.” He added, “I was shooting with Jaideep sir’s dog in the movie and it’s a massive rottweiler. I didn’t know they were that big. The owner said you can do whatever you want with it. I was feeding it biscuits and playing with it. At one point, I pulled it slightly. It growled at me in the most ferocious way and then he said that you can do what you want but don’t pull it,” he expressed.
Sharing what surprised them about each other, Jaideep said, “I’m surprised just working with him (Saif). I’ve done something good that I’m working with him, that’s a surprise for me also.” To which Saif added that it was his physique that shocked him. “I was surprised by how thin he was. The last time I saw him as Hathiram (Ahlawat’s character in Paatal Lok), he was looking quite solid. Here he was lean, mean, badass, very sexy, giving young Sanjay Dutt vibes to me. The other thing, I shouldn’t have been surprised but I was, was the commitment to the reality of the shots.”
When asked about what made him give a nod to the film when they first heard the story, he shared, “For me, it was the role and the story of a talented kind of person who has these dark skills and goes against the system. He’s a rebellious kind of guy who has made his way in the world. He’s a sympathetic character who has his heart in the right place and does things for the right reasons. He has a line in the film where he says that sometimes good people have to do bad things to save their family, and that was an important line for me.”
Besides Saif Ali Khan and Jaideep Ahlawat, Jewel Thief also features Kunal Kapoor and Nikita Dutta in pivotal roles. Directed by Kookie Gulati and Robbie Grewal, the film has been receiving poor reviews from the critics and viewers.
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