ItвЂ™s my first out-and-out positive character. Yes, IвЂ™m playing one of the main characters. Even though she is younger to me, she loves behaving like my elder sister. I was very protective of her, always watchful, always making sure she did the right thing. We share a very close bond and have probably never fought. We donвЂ™t poke around in each otherвЂ™s lives. WeвЂ™re involved in each otherвЂ™s lives when we want the other one to be involved. What kind of a relationship do the two of you share? We had to keep switching on and off from real life brother-sister to reel brother-sister. Our relationship is obviously very different from the one in the film. Outstanding! Both of us dreamt of becoming actors and to get an opportunity to work together like this was amazing. What was it like to have Shraddha as a co-star? This is the first time youвЂ™ve worked with a family member on screen. from her point of view what happens to him, to her escape, to her husband. ThatвЂ™s what weвЂ™ve tried to show in the film. They did, of course, have to deal with crime and it got really intense for them with their family. I guess a brother-sister relationship - no matter what they do in life, gangsters, being poets, being doctors, being actors - is a brother and sister relationship. What is your sense of the relationship between Dawood and Haseena? I wanted to keep his body language different from what IвЂ™ve seen other actors do before. But when it came to the older portions, we had to use silicon, prosthetics and lens. So we had the freedom to show him in a different way. In Haseena, we first see Dawood as an 18-year-old. But theyвЂ™ve all played him when heвЂ™s 35 or 40 years old. Lots of brilliant legends have played him like Rishi Sir (Kapoor, in D-Day), Ajay Devgn (in Company) and Sonu Sood (in Shootout at Wadala). The audience has seen other actors play Dawood in the past. Author (S.) Hussain Zaidi helped me get an insight into DawoodвЂ™s life.

I read a lot of books, including Dongri to Dubai. I did a lot of workshops to help me get into his psyche and understand his character.

What kind of research did this demand of you? I donвЂ™t like doing things that are normal. I didnвЂ™t believe it because I never saw myself playing Dawood Ibrahim. What was your first reaction when Apoorva Lakhia asked you to play Dawood? And later on she came on board, which was an amazing thing. I was probably the first person to be cast in the film. It came to me two-and-a-half or three years ago. DuttaвЂ™s war film Paltan.Дid Haseena Parkar come to you first or was Shraddha signed first? t2 met Shakti KapoorвЂ™s son to talk about his relationship with younger sister Shraddha and why he is excited to shoot J.P. The gangster flick chronicles the life of DawoodвЂ™s sister Haseena - played by SiddhanthвЂ™s real-life sister Shraddha - from teenage to the time she turns 40. Siddhanth Kapoor plays Dawood Ibrahim in Apoorva LakhiaвЂ™s Haseena Parkar, releasing on September 22. Siddhanth Kapoor as Dawood Ibrahim in Haseena Parkar, releasing September 22

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