Bhuvan Bam talked to Brut about trying Jackie Shroff’s viral recipe and how a call with Javed Jaaferi led to a show together.
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00:00I was one of the people who had tasted his Kadhipatta while he was making it in the vanity.
00:05This Kadhipatta fry was put on top of the egg.
00:08Yeah, it's nice.
00:12Hi, this is Bhuvan Bam and you're watching me on Root.
00:15A lot of actors of late have been complaining that when they go to auditions,
00:19casting directors ask them, how many followers do you have?
00:22They say that influencers are kind of taking over the acting space.
00:26How do you react to that?
00:29I mean, from a producer's point of view, I think it's a call that I understand.
00:36That everyone wants footfalls in theatres.
00:39And that's why they ask you how many followers you have.
00:42But I feel the people who genuinely want to make cinema,
00:45they never go for petty things like this.
00:49If you are talented enough, then it will automatically pull the audiences to the theatres
00:54and to the platforms.
00:56But yeah, I've never personally faced the follower fiasco.
01:05I'm very much up to give auditions.
01:09And I'm very eager to give auditions in life.
01:12When I had started my journey on YouTube,
01:16I had never imagined that I'll make a show or a movie, ever.
01:21That was not the goal.
01:24I just wanted to put out a joke in front of some people, a few people,
01:28apart from my friends.
01:30And that's how BB Ki Vines came into being.
01:33But it got picked up in every other country except India.
01:37And that made me even more greedy.
01:41Because I wanted people from India to watch what I wanted to show them.
01:45But it happened.
01:49People kept on joining the channel.
01:53And then I decided that if I need to make it big,
01:57then I need to concentrate on a long format concept.
02:01And that's how Dhindora, my first ever show, came into being.
02:04And from there, I thought that it will be a great step
02:09to pursue an acting career, a full-time acting career.
02:14And that's how Taza Khabar happened.
02:16And it just fell into my bag.
02:17I called JJ sir up.
02:19And I told him, this is Bhuvan.
02:21And I'm a big fan.
02:23Whatever we say to the icons,
02:27I told him, sir, we've made a mistake.
02:31We've done the dubbing this year for Takeshi's reboot.
02:36And he was pretty chill about it.
02:38And that's where I knew.
02:40And that's the call when I asked him out.
02:43Legit, I asked him out.
02:46Legit, I asked him out.
02:47Sir, would you go on a shoot schedule with me?
02:49And he graciously agreed.
02:51He didn't even ask for a script.
02:53He didn't even ask for a script.
02:54We keep telling everyone to ask for a script.
02:56He read the script.
02:57But sir is a sweetheart.
02:59He just said yes to it.
03:00Did you have a fanboy moment with him?
03:02Yeah.
03:03The first day he was on set, he was eating chickpeas.
03:06And he was like, will you eat chickpeas?
03:08I was like, no, sir.
03:09I've memorized the dialogue from Mushkil.
03:12So let's say the dialogue today.
03:14What's been your funniest celebrity encounter?
03:17I met Jackie Shroff, sir.
03:20I met him.
03:22I told him that I want to see you.
03:24So he's like, yeah, come.
03:26So I went to one of his sets.
03:28He was shooting in Mumbai only.
03:30I went there.
03:31And then that Kadhipatta thing that he's getting viral.
03:36Aaj kal, a few months ago.
03:38That reel of him went viral of Kadhipatta.
03:40I was one of the people who had tasted his Kadhipatta.
03:45While he was making it in the vanity.
03:47He was like, eat it, eat it.
03:48How is it?
03:49How is it?
03:50I was like, yeah, it's nice.
03:52It was bad.