The director kept postponing shooting for a small character?
3 Idiots is one of the highest grossing films of Bollywood. This film of aamir khan had made record breaking earnings. sharman joshi and R madhavan were also in important roles in the film. The casting of the film was very brilliant. rajkumar hirani had done the casting for each character very carefully. A video of rajkumar hirani is going viral. In this, he is sharing an anecdote related to the casting of the film. He told that he kept postponing the shooting for a small role.
Shooting was postponed for a small character
Rajkumar told- 'A boy had committed suicide in the film. His father had a small role in the film, that his son has died and he is crying in pain. So I was looking for an old man who has a warm data-face. He will have only two shots in the film but he should have a warm data-face. You feel for him. We searched for a warm old data-face for that character in the whole city. We kept pushing the shooting for a year thinking that this is not right. Then we got tired.'
He further told- 'One day there was a Marathi film DVD lying on the table. That film was made in the 50s. There was a woman with a 7-year-old child in it. That child was very cute. At that time I was shouting at everyone that why are we not able to find him. What happened, are there no people in the city. Then I saw that photo and said find this child. He must have become old now. If the warm data-face of the child is still there then it will be good for the character. Then we searched for him, and we found him. He used to do theatre in Pune. He was an old man.'