“Comedy and cruelty often go hand in hand,” said Kundan Shah (born on October 19, 1947) to journalist and writer Jai Arjun Singh. The Road To Comedy: The Alchemy Of Humour...Interestingly, many people who know Kundan insist that he isn’t an inherently funny person. The first drafts of his own scripts tend to contain a lot of ideology, as well as explicit references to serious literature. Oberoi, playing a bank teller, improvised a funny little action where he starts tapping his fingers against his desk while counting out currency notes — a reflexive response to another character drumming on a nearby table. Saeed Mirza and Naseeruddin Shah were among the many FTII students who were taken aback by Bonga.

Source: The Hindu October 07, 2017 15:45 UTC