Ali Fazal’s going places

The recently released Bobby Jasoos boasts of Vidya Balan as the female protagonist. However, it is Ali Fazal’s performance in the film that is being praised by many.

In Bobby Jasoos, Ali plays the role of Tasawur, a TV anchor who dreams of escaping the bylanes of old Hyderabad. Ali admits that he was quite unsure before taking up the film. “Since Vidya’s was the central character in this film. I read the script thoroughly to make sure my role was significant,” he says.

He insists that the love story brewing between his character Tasawur, and Bilkis Ahmed, aka Bobby, is rather unusual. He says, “That’s because Tasawur is actually one of Bobby’s cases... she helps him get rid of marriage proposals. And what starts off as a professional relationship slowly develops into a friendship and beyond.” The actor also feels that when it comes to Bollywood films, Hyderabad as a location remains quite untapped. “I haven’t seen a movie based in Hyderabad for the longest time, and we had a lot of fun shooting in the city.” Ali Fazal also stars in the seventh installment of Hollywood hit franchise Fast and Furious, for which he finished shooting recently.

He says, “It was a different experience altogether. I shot with them last September, the whole gang Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Kurt Russel, and Ludacris. As Paul Walker passed away and the script had to be redone, I had to go back for the shoot. I completed shooting for the film just two months back.”