Meezaan Jaffrey’s performance is loved by everyone in Hungama 2, starring Paresh Rawal, Shilpa Shetty, and Rajpal Yadav in lead roles.
However, did you know that Meezaan Jaffery made his silver screen debut by playing Ranveer’s body double?
Meezaan was a part of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Padmavaat’ and played the role of Ranveer Singh’s body double in that. He was assisting Bhansali on ‘Padmaavat’ and witnessing Ranveer, Deepika Padukone, and Shahid Kapoor on set taught him a lot.
“Bhansali sir trusted me, and he would rehearse scenes with me. He would record the rehearsals and the blockings, and he’d give me feedback on my performance,” says Meezaan in an interview with RJ Siddharth Kannan.
Meezaan also recalls a tense situation when he was called to step in for an unavailable Ranveer.
“I was there on set, in costume and makeup. I hadn’t eaten anything, so I was really stressed. I was a little late, and it took an hour for the prosthetics and for me to get into the look. I learned the script in that one hour. The moment I came out, I was already nervous about doing proper acting in front of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, it was technically my ‘silver screen debut’, and there were 500 junior artistes around me, and I had to deliver a whole speech. Then an assistant director comes to me and shows me Ranveer’s version of the shot, and asks me to replicate his mannerisms. I was like, ‘why couldn’t you have told me before! I was already so tense’. But regardless, I went ahead, I was terrified, I was in bad shape,” he continued.
Did you notice Meezaan in Padmavaat?