Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Kriti Sanon are gearing up for their upcoming film Crew, which is set to release in theatres this Friday. Set against the backdrop of the airline industry, the film also stars Diljit Dosanjh and Kapil Sharma. And with such a star-studded cast, expectations are sky high from the film.
However, multi-starrers often tend to become grapevine’s favourite topic of discussion. Ego tussles, insecurity and rivalries among peers on a film set aren’t unheard of. And when you’ve three top stars spending so much time under the same roof, speculations are bound to erupt. But Crew seems to be an exception. BTS videos and the trailer launch event of the film bore a testament to the easy camaraderie that Tabu, Kareena and Kriti share.
In fact, director Rajesh A Krishnan, in an exclusive chat with News18 Showsha, rules out ego battles among the cast members of Crew. “If it did happen, I wasn’t aware of it. Even if there was ego play, I didn’t see any because most of my focus was on work. I didn’t feel the need to get involved in small talks. Neither did I encourage any of that nor was I pulled into it. Tabu, Kareena and Kriti are all stars who came on-board and they knew pretty much what they were getting into,” he says.
Instead, the vibe on set was lively with the three women getting along with each other exceptionally well. “I saw they had a lot of respect for each other. There was a lot of chatting going on and I had to stop them saying, ‘Okay, children, the shot is ready.’ I almost had to tell them to stop messing and fooling around (laughs),” he jokes.
Working with the trio gave the filmmaker the chance to witness ‘a confluence of three different styles of acting like a Mercedes logo with three lines converging to the centre’. Lauding Tabu, he says, “She internalises things. Regardless of the lines she was saying, the emotional quotient always felt right. She was open to doing multiple takes if there were technical glitches and the continuity guys had to intervene.”
According to Rajesh, Kareena was more into ‘studying the director’. “For Bebo, it was important to know what my pitch was. Her first takes are always her interpretation of a scene and the second would be a mix of what she wants and what I want. We would go for a third take with her very rarely and even if we did, she would do it just the way I wanted,” he shares.
As for Kriti, the Lootcase director attributes her meticulousness to her engineering degree. “She got into very interesting details and every small details mattered to her. She would ask me a lot of questions about her character. Sometimes I would have the answers and at other times, I had to tell her that it’s not relevant. She wanted to know the character out and out as that would help lend it a certain mannerism on camera,” he remarks.
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