Sidharth Malhotra is promoting his new film Hasee Toh Phasee and doing interviews around India. Though tired from constant interviews, he is excited to discuss his career journey from modeling to being an assistant director and his debut as a lead actor in Bollywood. Malhotra notes that his lack of family connections in the film industry did not hinder his success, as many new producers and directors want to make different types of films. He says the most difficult move was quitting modeling to become an assistant director. The document also includes two short interview excerpts from Sidharth Malhotra about the film Brothers, a Bollywood remake of the film Warrior. Malhotra says the

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Sidharth Malhotra is a busy
man to catch. The actor,
on the eve of the release of
his second movie, Hasee
Toh Phasee, is doing
promotional tours around
the country. But it is difficult
to tell from his excited and
eager appearance that he
has been doing back-to-back
interviews all day. There is
a lot to talk about as well —
from his modelling years to
being an assistant director
on My Name is Khan, his
big launch in Bollywood and
being nervous about his new
movie, which sees him in the
solo lead.
That Sidharth Malhotra does
not come from a background
in cinema, with a famous
name attached is the first
question he’s often asked.
But the 29-year-old actor is
not much concerned about
that. “There are many new
producers and directors
today who want to make
good and different kinds
of films. It doesn’t matter if
you have a relative in the
industry or not,” he adds.
What matters, he says, are
the choices you make. “For
me, the most difficult move
was when I chose to quit
modelling, and applied for
a position of an assistant
director,” he says.
Brothers is an official
remake of Warrior. Why
do you think this movie
works in a Bollywood
setting?
"Well it has so much for
a Bollywood audience. It
is a great emotional story
of how this family breaks
apart and what impact and
repercussions that has on
the children. And when they
grow up how they resolve
it. The two brothers are
extremely traumatised due
to the path that they had and
they take up a profession as
Mixed Martial Arts Fighters
and it's about how they
eventually resolve that. It
has the Hindi film emotion in
it, but the packaging is very
Western, so it works for both
audiences."
Did you watch the
original film and how
did you go about
ensuring the portrayal
of your character was
not influenced by the
original film?
"Well I have definitely seen
the original before the film
happened and before it came
to me. Once I heard the script
my character was totally
different from Tom Hardy's
character. My character is the
only one that's not similar to
the original, so there was no
point referring to the original.
I just went by my director
Karan Malhotra's convictions
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