EXCLUSIVE: Bamfaad Actor Aditya Rawal Gets Candid About His Bond With Father Paresh Rawal & Lots More

He is Paresh Rawal’s son but Aditya Rawal has been relevant in the Bollywood industry for more reasons than that. Before his debut as an actor, he has co-written Panipat, short films like The Mailbox & Monsoon, has assisted director Umesh Shukla on the sets of OMG: Oh My God!

Before the trailer release of his debut digital movie Bamfaad, we got into a chat with Aditya and tried to find more about him and the film than the world knows. Here are some excerpts:

1) First of all, tell me everything about Bamfaad that’s possible.

The story is set in Allahabad. It’s a love story with elements of friendship, politics, betrayal. At its heart a coming of age film.

2) “Jahaan dil lagaana nahin aasaan, wahaan aashiqui hogi Bamfaad!” Found this punchline that has been used for the film very interesting. Tell me more about it.

When you will see the trailer, you’ll see this is the sense of humour and quirkiness, dialogue writing skills of both Ranjan Bhai (Ranjan Chandel) and Hanzalah Shahid. Ranjan Bhai is actually from Kanpur and Hanzalah is from Allahabad itself, so they know the world very intimately. When you know something so well, you can play around with it and be spontaneous, you can improvise, you can find things that people wouldn’t have otherwise. Because your foundation in that world is so strong. So that’s where I think it comes from. That’s where all the quirks and the unique nature of the story comes from.

3) Being a writer yourself did you ever improvised your dialogues or contributed your own bit in the script?

On a set like ours, Ranjan Bhai was always open to improvisation but in most of the cases, the lines are so good we didn’t really need to improvise a lot. But of course, there is always some improvisation but as far as contributions go, our contributions were only of actors. There’s no way we were involved in the scripting process.