When Amitabh Bachchan was asked to ‘speak more naturally’ by Kaante director Sanjay Gupta: ‘He gave me a look saying what do you mean…’

As soon as the rehearsal was done, Sanjay Gupta said that he exchanged a look with Sanjay Dutt as they acknowledged that someone would have to tell Amitabh Bachchan to speak softly. “When the rehearsal happened, me and Sanju exchanged looks and I was thinking, now who bells the cat?” he remembered with a smile. Gupta then sat down with Bachchan and told him to speak ‘naturally’.

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“I remember I sat down with him. I said ‘Sir, I just wanted to tell you something. I just heard the recording…’ I hadn’t listened to anything by then. I told him that his voice was getting distorted, so he had to (gestures to lower it down) because the rest of them are speaking softly. He asked ‘you want me to take it softer?’ I said ‘yes, more natural’. He gave me that look ‘what do you mean more natural?’ But after that, everything was a piece of cake,” he shared.

In the same interview, Sanjay also said that he had initially planned Kaante as a film with newcomers, but upon hearing the idea, Sanjay Dutt encouraged him to make it on a large scale. The film was heavily inspired from Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.