Randeep Hooda’s Swantantra Veer Savarkar was released this Friday and marked the actor’s debut as a director. Randeep Hooda had to go through a massive transformation for this film and revealed that he lost nearly 32kgs of weight to play the lead. The actor recalled the times he was hungry on set and said that while it is a luxury to starve as an actor, it becomes a curse when you’re the director.
Randeep told Pinkvilla, “Being starving and underweight as an actor is a luxury, being starving and underweight as a director is a curse. Because you lose patience, you don’t have patience and you’re hungry. People are having lunch breaks, evening nashta breaks, that break and you’re just a person sitting there hungry. When you’re hungry you have more energy. So that was a very big thing which I think everybody suffered from me as a hangry person on set… I had lost about 30 to 32 kilos by the end of it.”
He added, “It was very very challenging. One thing that happens to every human being is that they lose patience when they’re starving. That’s the first thing that happens and you get too much energy and you say something even softly but it comes across (differently).”
“All scripts that I’ve ever done as an actor, I know them inside out, sometimes more than other people, and I’m always on the ball and I usually follow the screenplay, and of course, there are basic characteristics to every human being that you play and then you make that into a larger thing. In this case, I paid the least amount of attention to myself while acting. I was always paying attention to the cinematography, to other characters, to the scene work and all that. Oftentimes I used to forget to take my own shot,” Randeep continued.
News18 gave the film 3/5 stars. The review read, “The film mostly stays true to his story until the Kaala Paani sentence and even a little after that. However, when the political career bit starts to shape, Randeep Hooda takes creative liberty and shows scenes that might have not panned out in real life. The film features a scene in which Bhagat Singh meets Savarkar, an incident that isn’t backed with historical evidence. It also hints at the narrative that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was inspired by Savarkar and sought his guidance while making a crucial political move. There is no evidence of this either and to top it off, last year, Netaji’s grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose himself clarified that this was untrue. Given that it is a biopic, the film fails to stay true to history and it is heartbreaking.”
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