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Shah Rukh Khan, who will soon be seen playing a superhero in science Why is the villain of the film called Ra.One and the superhero G.One? Ra.One (pronounced as Ravan) is Random Access: Version One. But it also stands for a bad or negative person made with 10 of the worse ... you can mythologically connect it to Raavan and his 10 heads. G.One (pronounced as Jeevan) is the life giver, the one I am playing. Why did you name the film after a villain? Many of my friends, including Karan (Johar) and Adi (Aditya Chopra) told me to name the film as G.One. But whenever I have seen a superhero or larger-than-life film, including Sholay (I am not comparing`85choti muuh bari maat) or Mr India, that has superheroic characters like Jai-Veeru or Mr India, the negative character also goes big`85take Gabbar Singh, Mogambo, Shakaal. The villain is so big that we need a superhero to defeat him. So I thought keeping the villain’s name as title will be a bit different. I know people were a bit confused as they thought Shah Rukh is playing Ra.One. But it’s not so. Ra.One is evil and there is no particular face to evil`85anyone can be evil at any point of time. That’s the logic behind the title. What was the most difficult part of performing your own stunts? If I am not mistaken, I did 75-80 per cent of the stunts on my own. There used to be harness inside my superhero suit ... it was really uncomfortable and that was the most difficult part. During shooting, I had to jump, go down and go up 30-40 feet`85the holding of the harness for such long time itself was very tiring. With the harness, one cannot eat, cannot move freely ... I think I lost six to seven kg due to the harness. Now that the shooting is over, even I get shocked when I see the shots ... ke kaise kar liya yaar! The Indian audience has got its first superhero in Krrish, where visual effects played a major role. Are we going to see superior effects in Ra. One? See, what makes me confident about Ra. One is we are the producers (Red Chillies Entertainment) and it’s our VFX unit that’s working on the project. So, that’s double the effect and can safely say we have never done such effects before. I won’t say there have never ever been such good effects, but on our part, the effort is a lot more as the responsibility is a lot more. Things should not go wrong. Hrithik Roshan and Abhishek Bachchan have played superheroes in Krrish and Drona respectively. Have you seen the films? I am inspired by both Krrish and Drona. When I was a child, I used to tie a towel on my back, wear blue tights of my sister and a red swimming costume over it, and jump from a higher platform. I love comics and superhero characters since childhood. I used to watch films like Teesri Aankh, Parasmani. So when I saw Krrish, I was really, really happy to see it. I won’t say envious, but I always desired to do such a film. Then I saw Drona and found it fantastic ... the efforts. You will be seen promoting ‘No Smoking’ in the film. But you are a smoker yourself`85 It’s the worst habit
anyone can have and I am speaking out of experience ... there’s
strain on teeth, bad breath, you get headache in the morning, fingers
get yellow, stamina decreases. That’s the only bad habit I have. If
I weren’t smoking, I would have been a saint. But now I want to
seriously quit smoking and thanks to this film that I had to cut down
my cigarettes to get physically fitter. I am trying my best to quit
smoking. More than for my children, family and friends, I have to give
it up for myself. — TWF
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