Dhurandhar actor talks Arjun Rampal’s torture scene in the film; recalls bone chilling experience: ‘Yeh allow ho gaya?’

Dhurandhar actor Naveen Kaushik discusses the scale of the film and how director Aditya Dhar built an entire township for shooting the film in Bangkok.

Naveen Kaushik talks about Dhurandhar's scale and gory visuals. (Photo: YouTube/JTF)

The Aditya Dhar directorial is currently running away with the numbers at the box office. Apart from the several records it has broken, the project is also being discussed for the way it has been filmed, especially the scenes based in Pakistan. Actor Naveen Kaushik, who is a part of the film, recently talked about the same and revealed that he couldn’t believe what the makers of Dhurandhar pulled off and all that they got away with, considering the gory visuals involved.

First talking about the violence in the film, Naveen told Just Too Filmy that there were many scenes that left him in awe and shock. He specifically talked about the torture scene with Arjun Rampal and said, “I mean, I read the script, but I wasn’t there for the entire shoot. But when you finally see what they have created — like the 26/11 scene or when Arjun Rampal’s character tells Hamza that they know there is a spy within them – that scene is spine-chilling. The torture scene that comes after that – I mean, I just thought, ‘Yeh allow ho gaya‘ (This got allowed)? That scene is insane.”

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He then moved on to the scale of the film and said that he wondered whether Dhar and his team had bitten off more than they could chew. Kaushik said, “Aditya narrated most of the film to me, and I felt that this is a good story, but will they be able to pull it off? When we were shooting in Bangkok, they had recreated Lyari there. 8 blocks had been transformed into Pakistan, with all the shops, houses, and alleys. That’s when I realised that the scale of the film is huge.”

He continued, “I mean, they were using actual houses that people could stay in. They told me that the crew stays in those houses when they aren’t shooting. People were living on the set, and they could convert anything that they wanted for the film. For 40 days it was like an actual township. There was a restaurant and separate houses dedicated to the costume, makeup and action teams. That’s when I was like, ‘Iss film ka scale alag hai’ (The scale of this film is something different).”

Directed by Aditya Dhar, the cast of Dhurandhar includes Ranveer Singh, Akshaye Khanna, Arjun Rampal, R Madhavan, Sara Arjun, Sanjay Dutt and Naveen Kaushik.

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