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Jaaved Jafferi8217;s back but with a Rajnikant hangover
As animated in person as he is on screen, Jaaved Jafferi can effortlessly grab your attention even in a crowded pub. Even as our photographer waits for a photo session, he is busy posing for photographs with fans outside Firangi Paani, where we have a lunch date with the actor.
Hansraj has also utilised Jaffrey8217;s crooning skills alongside Saif Ali Khan in a rap number. 8220;This is my third film with Saif after Ta Ra Rum Pum and Salaam Namaste and he8217;s so much fun. We just brought the same energy into the song,8221; he explains. Despite the success of his iconic track Mumbhai from Bombay Boys, Jafferi does not consider himself a singer: 8220;I don8217;t have the skills to be a professional singer but I can express my feelings through words and music in my own style, which is what probably works for me.8221;
Jafferi may briefly disappear from films, but he has always remained faithful to television through Boogie Woogie, the first reality dance show in India. 8220;We don8217;t sensationalise the show like the others on air currently; we are original. And the reason for our success is the fact that to be on our show, the participants don8217;t have to look good. They are real people with real skills,8221; says the judge.
The actor has also been invited on the judges8217; panel to Russia for the Golden Minbar Islamic Festival, a platform for movies that deal with Islam on day-to-day basis.
The 45-year-old has more projects underway 8212; Loot with Govinda and Mithun Chakraborty, Daddy Kool, Dhamaal 2, Hello Darling and Chai Garam. But the film he is looking forward to the most is Paying Guest. 8220;I play a normal guy in it, which is challenge of sorts.8221; Or an irony of sorts.
