Meezaan recently opened up about working as an assistant director on the sets of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’.
In an interview with Filmfare, Meezaan spoke about pitching in as an assistant on the sets of ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi after one of the assistants was sick. The actor stated that he learnt a lot from watching Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn on the set.
“A lot of people on set were shocked that you know, because you really don’t see actors once they’ve started working, coming back on set, assisting for a day or two, holding the clap, running around pulling the junior artists together. You know junior artists on Sanjay sir’s set are 300 on average. All of them coming and telling me ‘how are you doing this’, and I don’t know why we think of these things as degrading, like ‘oh, someone’s back to assist’ and things like that, but I think these kinds of things help in the future and help you evolve, they help you grow and they help you learn so much,” he said.
Elaborating further, he added, “But you know I was running on set, and tying junior artists’ shoelaces, making them wear chappals and running, doing whatever work that has to be done being on set. I love the process of filmmaking, so all these things don’t matter to me.”
Meanwhile, on the work front, he was last seen in Priyadarshan’s ‘Hungama 2’ where he shared screen space with actors like Shilpa Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav, Pranitha Subhash and others. The film was released on an OTT platform and received mixed reviews from the audience and the critics alike.
