Actor Sonu Sood has opened up on his first film, revealing that while he prepared for the language (Tamil) on his way to the audition, all he was asked to do was to take his shirt off and he bagged the movie.
Sonu said he had been giving auditions for long, believing he was doing a brilliant job, but clearly it wasn’t the same for filmmakers as he did not get any project.
Speaking on Neha Dhupia’s No Filter with Neha, Sonu said, “I will tell you when I got my first film – a south Indian film, my mom gifted me a book ‘How to learn Tamil’ and I was trying to mug up Tamil words for water, ‘come here’ and the likes on the way. I went to the studio and the AD asked me to sit alone. I started imagining that my life is all set to change).”
Revealing that he was simply asked to show off his body, Sonu further said, “The director and the producer comes in and they said ‘very good Sonu, you have a good body, can you take out your tshirt and show us?’ I was like, fine and I did. They said ‘good, you are doing our movie’. I was like ‘Did I get the movie?’ and they said, ‘yes, you got it’) I still remember, it was raining in Chennai that day and that was one day I can never forget.”
Sonu appeared in Tamil movie Kallazhagar in 1999 and was perhaps talking about the same.
Sonu also remembered his first Hindi film, Bhagat Singh and revealed that he would often prove the film producer wrong on sets.
Sonu said he is good with history and his granddad had studied with Bhagat Singh in Lahore College. Sonu added that producer Iqbal Singh Dhillon would often contradict Sonu’s version of the sequence of events, only to realise later (after reading up) that the actor was actually right. “
Sonu has since worked in several big films, including Mani Ratnam’s Yuva, Anuskha’s Arundathi, and blockbuster movies like Allu Arjun’s Jalayi.
